The radical potter : Josiah Wedgwood and the transformation of Britain / Tristram Hunt
2021, Third Edition. London : Allen Lane. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447568
ISBN: 9780241287897
Physical description; xxiv, 322 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (color), maps (some color), genealogical table ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; This Rugged Pott-Making Spot of Earth -- I Saw the Field was Spacious -- A Grateful Heart -- A Name Has a Wonderful Effect -- The Arts of Etruria are Reborn -- That Island of Wisdom, Courage and Virtue -- Machines of Men -- This Enlightened Age -- The Subject of Freedom -- The Inclination of the Scales. Subjects; Wedgwood, Josiah 1730-1795. Potters Great Britain ; Biography. Abolitionists England ; Biography. Biography. Abolitionists. Potters. Biography & non-fiction prose. Ceramic & glass: artworks. Biography: historical, political & military. History. Industrialisation & industrial history. Slavery & abolition of slavery. History of specific companies / corporate history. Inventions & inventors. Globalization. General & world history. Social & cultural history. Biography.
Price: €28.00