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The Crimean War and its Afterlife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

The Crimean War and its Afterlife

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

The Great Exhibition of 1851
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Great Exhibition of 1851

These essays expose how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains readings of the historical record of the exhibition, exploring the use of industrial knowledge & the contested definitions of nation & colony.

Grand Designs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Grand Designs

With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establi...

Histories of a Radical Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Histories of a Radical Book

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Sculpture and the Vitrine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Sculpture and the Vitrine

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their contexts, group them with other objects, both similar and dissimilar, and often serve to reinforce their intrinsic or aesthetic values. The vitrine has much in common with the picture frame, the plinth and the gallery, but it has not yet received the kind of detailed art historical and theoretical discussion that has been brought to these other modes of formal display. The twelve contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with s...

Nineteenth Century Prose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 560

Nineteenth Century Prose

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting

  • Categories: Art

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world’s fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise in westernized cultural hybrids. The Japanese response: nihonga, a traditional style of painting that reframed existing techniques to distinguish them from Western artistic conventions. Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state. Chelsea...

The Medieval New
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Medieval New

Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving as a means to adjudicate the ethics of invention and opening thorny questions of creativity and desire. The Medieval New concentrates on the preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth thr...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 759

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, mos...

Many Mouths
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Many Mouths

A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.