Colonies at Home : Loudon's Encyclopaedia and the architecture of forming the self

On the rise of the crucial image of the cottage - the small house in its own garden - in 19th century British and colonial thought. Author argues than the 'cottage' became not only equipment for the colonial enterprise, but also a kind of colonisation of the home by a new image of the family. Looks at these issues in relation to William Allen's 1828 pamphlet 'Colonies at home' and J C Loudon's 'Encyclopaedia' (1833).