Author: Robert Dossie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Memoirs of Agriculture, and Other Oeconomical Arts
Author: Robert Dossie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Arts and Minds
Author: Anton Howes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207615
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"For almost 300 years, an organisation has quietly tried to change almost every aspect of life in Britain. That organisation is the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, often known simply as the Royal Society of Arts. It has acted as Britain's private national improvement agency, in every way imaginable - essentially, a society for the improvement of everything and anything. This book is its history. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Society has tried to change Britain's art, industry, laws, music, environment, education, and even culture. It has sometimes even succeeded. It has been a prize-fund for innovations, a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, a convenor of disparate interest groups, and the focal point for social movements. There has never been an organisation quite like it, constantly having to reinvent itself to find something new to improve. The book rewrites many of the old official histories of the Society and updates them to the present day, incorporating over half a century of further research into the periods they covered, along with new insights into the organisation's evolution. The book reveals the hidden and often surprising history of how a few public-spirited people tried to make their country better, offering lessons from their triumphs and their failures for all would-be reformers today"--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207615
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"For almost 300 years, an organisation has quietly tried to change almost every aspect of life in Britain. That organisation is the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, often known simply as the Royal Society of Arts. It has acted as Britain's private national improvement agency, in every way imaginable - essentially, a society for the improvement of everything and anything. This book is its history. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Society has tried to change Britain's art, industry, laws, music, environment, education, and even culture. It has sometimes even succeeded. It has been a prize-fund for innovations, a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, a convenor of disparate interest groups, and the focal point for social movements. There has never been an organisation quite like it, constantly having to reinvent itself to find something new to improve. The book rewrites many of the old official histories of the Society and updates them to the present day, incorporating over half a century of further research into the periods they covered, along with new insights into the organisation's evolution. The book reveals the hidden and often surprising history of how a few public-spirited people tried to make their country better, offering lessons from their triumphs and their failures for all would-be reformers today"--
Memoirs of Agriculture
Author: Robert Dossie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Memoirs of Agriculture, and Other Oeconomical Arts ... Volume I
Author: Robert Dossie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Like Engend'ring Like
Author: Nicholas Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521031583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521031583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Albert Edward Musson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9782881243820
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Concentrating on the Industrial Revolution as experienced in Great Britain (and, within that sphere, mainly on the early development of the engineering and chemical industries), the authors develop the thesis that the interaction between theorists and men of practical affairs was much closer, more complex and more consequential than some historians of science have held it to be. Deeply researched, gracefully argued and fully documented. First published in 1969, and established now as a "classic" in the field, the present edition has a new foreword by Margaret C. Jacob. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9782881243820
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Concentrating on the Industrial Revolution as experienced in Great Britain (and, within that sphere, mainly on the early development of the engineering and chemical industries), the authors develop the thesis that the interaction between theorists and men of practical affairs was much closer, more complex and more consequential than some historians of science have held it to be. Deeply researched, gracefully argued and fully documented. First published in 1969, and established now as a "classic" in the field, the present edition has a new foreword by Margaret C. Jacob. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
London 1753
Author: Sheila O'Connell
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922479
Category : Arts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Published to accompany a major exhibition celebrating the 250th birthday of the British Museum, a portrait of London in 1753 reveals the city's life through its objects--prints and coins, paintings and trade cards, pub signs and drawings--and explores the characteristics and idiosyncracies of London in three essays by leading scholars.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922479
Category : Arts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Published to accompany a major exhibition celebrating the 250th birthday of the British Museum, a portrait of London in 1753 reveals the city's life through its objects--prints and coins, paintings and trade cards, pub signs and drawings--and explores the characteristics and idiosyncracies of London in three essays by leading scholars.
Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II vol 6
Author: Ann R Hawkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000748537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000748537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Cultivating the Human Faculties
Author: Susan Bennett
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book contains a series of essays on different aspects of Irish painter James Barry's monumental cycle of paintings 'The Progress of Human Knowledge', in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Barry's work is debated in the context of wider issues such as nationalism and improvement and publicity and patronage.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book contains a series of essays on different aspects of Irish painter James Barry's monumental cycle of paintings 'The Progress of Human Knowledge', in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Barry's work is debated in the context of wider issues such as nationalism and improvement and publicity and patronage.
Pastel Portraits
Author: Katharine Baetjer
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394239
Category : Pastel drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394239
Category : Pastel drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description