重商主義フランスに対抗する自由貿易主義英国のゴシックによる模擬の城  [in Japanese] GOTHICK SHAM CASTLES OF FREE TRADE ENGLAND AGAINST MERCANTILE FRANCE  [in Japanese]

A new category of garden building, namely Gothick sham castle, has been born in the period 1743-1760's. The socioeconomic meaning of popularity of these buildings is studied from the view point of the Anglo-French mercantile competition. English free traders appealed to arms to capture French trading posts, and to conquer the world trade markets. In these circumstances Gothick sham castles and castellated houses played an important role in raising their commercial chauvinism, in stirring morale to drive the people to wars, and in urging them to be united for victories, that is to say, formation of the British Empire and rapid increase of the volume of her world trade.