Author: Walley Chamberlain OultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Authentic and Impartial Memoirs of Her Late Majesty, Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
Author: Walley Chamberlain OultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Authentic and Impartial Memoirs of Her Late Majesty
Author: W. C. OultonAuthentic and impartial Memoirs of Her late Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland ... including various interesting and original particulars never before published
Author: Walley Chamberlain OULTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Monthly Magazine
Author: Some British Collectors of Music C.1600-1960
Author: A. Hyatt KingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521058864
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Mr King describes the interests and activities of nearly two hundred music-collectors from the period of c.1600 to 1960.
“The” Quarterly Review
Author: The New London Family Cook: Or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide ...
Author: Duncan MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, English
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Rocks, Ice and Dirty Stones
Author: Marcia PointonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The king of stones, valued since antiquity for their unrivalled hardness, diamonds today are both desired and deplored. Once faceted and polished they glitter on the fingers of brides-to-be and in the ornaments of the super-rich, but their extraction from some of the world’s poorest countries remains contentious. Immensely valuable for their size, diamonds can be easily hidden and transported, making them perfect contraband. Diamonds have been widely used in industry since the nineteenth century and have long been valued for their pharmaceutical and prophylactic properties. This entertaining and richly illustrated book examines the history of the diamond trade through the centuries from India and Brazil to South Africa and Europe and investigates what happens to diamonds once they reach the cutters and polishers. Marcia Pointon takes the reader on a unique tour of the ways in which the quadrahedron diamond shape has inspired design, architecture, and painting, from the symbolism of medieval manuscripts to modern-day graffiti. She questions the etiquette of engagement rings, and she reminds us why and how lost, stolen, or cursed diamonds create suspense in so many classic novels and films. This compelling and fascinating account of the history of sparklers around the world will appeal to all who covet, as well as all who despise, the unparalleled brilliance and glitter of the diamond.
Strategies for Showing
Author: Marcia R. PointonPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198174110
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this unusual and original study, Marcia Pointon examines the cultural effects and consequences of the participation by women in acts of representation in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She explores their lives and work, and a cultural environment in which images of female saints and goddesses established indices of femininity in the homes of wealthy men. Did the women portrayed also possess artifacts, and did they use the power of gifts and bequests to determine social relations? Did they themselves participate in the processes of creating images of the seen world? Pointon sets out to answer some of these questions through a series of novel and vividly recounted case studies of women such as Emma Hamilton (wife and mistress), Mary Moser, the artist, and Dorothy Richardson, the antiquarian.
Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135014259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.