Author: Leonard Southerden WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Romance of the Cotton Industry in England
Author: Leonard Southerden WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Grand Designs
Author: Lara KriegelPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
International Cotton Bulletin
Author: The Textile and Clothing Industries of the United Kingdom
Author: Lynden BriscoePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Social Change in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Neil J. SmelserPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136602119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has selected a model of social change from a developing general theory of action; for the second, the British industrial revolution between 1770 and 1840. From this large revolution is the isolated the growth of the cotton industry and the transformation of the family structure of its working classes.
The Reader
Author: Empire Cotton Growing Review
Author: Evolutionary History
Author: Edmund RussellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in other species has probably been the most important force shaping human history. This book introduces readers to evolutionary history, a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past than either can produce on its own. Evolutionary history can stimulate surprising new hypotheses for any field of history and evolutionary biology. How many art historians would have guessed that sculpture encouraged the evolution of tuskless elephants? How many biologists would have predicted that human poverty would accelerate animal evolution? How many military historians would have suspected that plant evolution would convert a counter-insurgency strategy into a rebel subsidy? With examples from around the globe, this book will help readers see the broadest patterns of history and the details of their own life in a new light.
The Periodical
Author: Monograph Series
Author: Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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