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“Heraldic Fantasies in Blue and Red and Silver”: Orientalism, Luxury and Social Corruption in the South Sea Directorial Houses

Eric Weichel

Eric Weichel

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In 1721, at the height of the social crisis caused by one of the worst financial collapses the emerging stock-market system had yet seen in Britain, an inventory of the houses of leading figures associated with the beleaguered South Sea...