The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses

The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses
Author: Geoffrey B. Seddon
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Drinking glasses
ISBN: 9781851497959

This detailed study of Jacobite glass supplies a means of authentication in a field renowned for fakes. Complete coverage of the subject is provided against a compelling historical background.

The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses

The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses
Author: Geoffrey B. Seddon
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Drinking glasses
ISBN: 9781851494040

The most detailed study of Jacobite glass ever. Supplies a means of authenticating the genuine engravings in a field known to be infested with fakes. Provides complete coverage of the subject, a compelling historical background and a wealth of magnificent photographs.

The Material Culture of the Jacobites

The Material Culture of the Jacobites
Author: Neil Guthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107041333

A comprehensive study of material objects associated with the Jacobites, produced, acquired and treasured in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Myth of the Jacobite Clans

Myth of the Jacobite Clans
Author: Pittock Murray Pittock
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-08-07
Genre: Clans
ISBN: 1474471684

The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.

The Social Life of Coffee

The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300133502

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.

A Spectacle of Corruption

A Spectacle of Corruption
Author: David Liss
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2004-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1588362426

Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, returns in David Liss’s sequel to the Edgar Award–winning novel, A Conspiracy of Paper. “[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss’s] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year’s best.”—The Boston Globe Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he understands two things: Someone wants him to hang—and another equally mysterious agent is determined to see him free. After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London’s most notorious prison, Weaver must face another challenge: to prove himself innocent when the corrupt courts have shown they care nothing for justice. Unable to show his face in public, Weaver pursues his inquiry disguised as a wealthy merchant seeking to involve himself in the contentious world of politics. Desperately navigating a labyrinth of schemers, crime lords, assassins, and spies, Weaver learns that in an election year, little is what it seems and the truth comes at a staggeringly high cost. Praise for A Spectacle of Corruption “[A] rousing sequel of historical, intellectual suspense. ”—San Antonio Express-News “Liss is a superb writer who evokes the squalor of London with Hogarthian gusto.”—People “In Benjamin Weaver, Mr. Liss has created a multifaceted character and a wonderful narrator.”—The New York Sun

Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses

Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses
Author: L. M. Bickerton
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986
Genre: Drinking glasses
ISBN: 9780907462613

There is a continuing interest in 18th-century drinking glasses which is fuelled by the enormous variety of bowls and stems. They are an eloquent testimony to the ingenuity and craftmanship of glass workers of the time. This guide is illustrated with over 1200 photographs.