Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 1907
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1902
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Noble Brutes

Noble Brutes
Author: Donna Landry
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801890284

This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.

Consuming Splendor

Consuming Splendor
Author: Linda Levy Peck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2005-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521842327

A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.