Arts and Minds : : How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation / / Anton Howes.
A major new history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 16 color + 30 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Patrons of the Nation
- 2. Exciting an Emulation
- 3. Peculiar Genius
- 4. Jack of All Trades
- 5. The Greatest Beauty for the Greatest Number
- 6. For the Masses, by the Masses
- 7. A System to Force down the General Throat
- 8. An Education for the Whole People
- 9. A Society against Ugliness
- 10. ‘Society of Snobs’
- 11. Rise of the Managers
- 12. Furious Brainstorming
- 13. Building a Social Movement?
- Acknowledgemens
- Abbreviations
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE