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A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Author | : Wellcome Historical Medical Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England
Author | : James Baker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319499890 |
This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and the necessity to sell shaped and constrained the satiric content these objects contained. It argues that production, sale, and environment are crucial to understanding late-Georgian satirical prints. A majority of these prints were, after all, published in London and were therefore woven into the commercial culture of the Great Wen. Because of this city and its culture, the activities of the many individuals involved in transforming a single satirical design into a saleable and commercially viable object were underpinned by a nexus of making, selling, and consumption. Neglecting any one part of this nexus does a disservice both to the late-Georgian satirical print, these most beloved objects of British art, and to the story of their late-Georgian apotheosis – a story that James Baker develops not through the designs these objects contained, but rather through those objects and the designs they contained in the making.
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820
Author | : Leslie Tomory |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421422042 |
How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.
Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 4
Author | : Frances Burney |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2003-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773561021 |
Volume IV of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, covering the years 1780-1781, will be of particular interest to students of Burney as it marks the young author's introduction into the world following the astonishing success of her novel Evelina (1778) and includes her visits to Streatham and her encounters with Hester and Henry Thrale and Dr Johnson. It was an exciting period in her life, which she managed to enjoy despite struggling to repeat her first success while avoiding the often unwelcome attention it brought. But it was also a difficult period in her family life as she dealt with jealous interference by her stepmother, the courtship of her sister Susan by a man she considered untrustworthy, and the misbehaviour of her brothers. Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Her descriptions contain the four great attributes that distinguish her novels: brilliant handling of detail, total and full recall of conversations characteristic of the speaker, sensibility and empathy for others, and great relish for the ridiculous wherever it occurred.
The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated
Author | : Henry Lewis |
Publisher | : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Hobart Town
Author | : Peter Bolger |
Publisher | : Canberra : Australian National University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A history of Hobart Town, Australia.
Mighty Lewd Books
Author | : J. Peakman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-06-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230512577 |
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.