Estate and the Country House in Scotland, circa 1700
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A01=Charlotte Abney Bassett
agricultural improvement
architecture
Author_Charlotte Abney Bassett
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eighteenth-century architecture
eighteenth-century country house
eighteenth-century Scotland
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estate management
forthcoming
Hopetoun House
lead mining
Sir William Bruce
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- ISBN 9781399552783
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using Hopetoun House as a case study, this book studies the intertwined relationship between land management, estate development and country house construction in the early decades of the eighteenth century.
The book shows that in revitalising ancient landscapes and maximising their productivity and profitability, landowners transformed the landscape through improvement. Making use of the rich and extensive collection of private archives at Hopetoun House, alongside materials from national archives, the book traces how Scotland’s societal structure was transformed as the new consumer capitalist paradigm shift emerged. The country house was interwoven into this nascent phenomenon.
Charlotte Abney Bassett is an Independent Historian with particular interest in rural Scottish history and the British Atlantic World. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University of Edinburgh. She worked closely with Peter Burman and the volunteer archivist team at Hopetoun House Papers Trust, located onsite at Hopetoun House, during her years of research for her thesis. While completing her doctorate and teaching history of art at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina, she published in Georgian Group Journal (2018 and 2021), Journal for Scottish Historical Studies (2020), and Studies in Arts and Humanities Journal (2019). She was elected as a fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in April 2024.
