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Victorian things / Asa Briggs.
By: Briggs, Asa
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BookPublisher: London : B. T. Batsford, 1988Description: 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 071344519X.Subject(s): Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 | Great Britain -- Industries -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 942.081
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 942.081 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00062687 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Things as Emissaries
- 2 "The Great Victorian Collection"
- 3 "The Philosophy of the Eye" Spectacles, Cameras and the New Vision
- 4 "Images of Fame"
- 5 "The Wonders of Common Things
- 6 "Hearth and Home
- 7 Hats, Caps and Bonnets
- 8 "Carboniferous Capitalism": Coal, Iron, and Paper
- 9 Stamps--Used and Unused
- 10 New Things--and Old
- Bibliographical
- Note
- Index
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CHOICE Review
With this study, the doyen of historians of Victorian Britain completes a trilogy. Briggs turns from people (Victorian People, 1955) and cities (Victorian Cities, 1963) to the objects the Victorians designed, named, advertised, collected, bought and sold, discarded, and bequeathed. Like the great 19th-century exhibitions it describes, Victorian Things is endlessly informative and fascinating. Unlike those vast Victorian collections, which Briggs uses to open up "the lost vistas" of the past, this volume is organized along clear lines ("expository frames") and gives a lucid analysis of Victorian material culture and values. Victorian Things supplements Peter Conrad's The Victorian Treasure-House (London, 1973), an approach to Victorian things through literature. Well-chosen illustrations but no footnotes; the bibliography is limited to recently published books. College and university libraries. -J. A. Thompson, University of KentuckyAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Asa Briggs was born in Keighley, England on May 7, 1921. He received a BA in history and a BSc in economics from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1941. During World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park, the Buckinghamshire country house devoted to cracking German wartime codes. He taught at several universities including the London School of Economics; Worcester College, Oxford; Leeds University; the University of Sussex; and Open University.He wrote several non-fiction works including The Age of Improvement, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, Victorian Things, and a five-volume history of British broadcasting. His last two books were the autobiographies entitled Secret Days and Special Relationships. He died on March 15, 2016 at the age of 94.
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