Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of an Extraordinary Collection of Antique Chinese Snuff Bottles Collected by Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews ...
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian CowanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Brush & Shutter
Author: Jeffrey W. CodyPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060546
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.
Bethlehem Revisited
Author: Floyd I. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh ParkerPublisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Cigarette Century
Author: Allan M. BrandtPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786721901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation. But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the next 100 years, we expect 1 billion deaths worldwide.
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings
Author: Mary Harrod NorthendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Style Manual
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920
Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description