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"Victorian Things"
by Asa Briggs
University of Chicago Press
ISBN#0226074838 (HB) $42.00 ISBN#0750933399 (PB) 12.99 (Check Amazon.com for discount amount)* |
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Things as Emissaries
Chapter Two 'The Great Victorian Collection'
Chapter Three 'The Philosophy of the Eye' Spectacles, Cameras and the New Vision
Chapter Four 'Images of Fame'
Chapter Five 'The Wonders of Common Things' |
Chapter Six 'Hearth and Home'
Chapter Seven Hats, Caps and Bonnets
Chapter Eight 'Carboniferous Capitalism': Coal, Iron and Paper
Chapter Nine Stamps--Used and Unused
Chapter Ten New Things--and Old
Bibliographic Note
Index
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SYNOPSIS: This book is a look at how the material things people invent and purchase reflect upon their values. The third in a trilogy from Asa Briggs (Victorian Cities and Victorian People,) Briggs explores capital enterprise, museums, exhibitions, furnishings, decorations and industry, and the meaning they had on everyday Victorian people, and how culture evolved because of them.TO ORDER THIS BOOK, CLICK HERE!
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