Arts and Minds (eBook)

How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation

Anton Howes (Autor)

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2020
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20190-0 (ISBN)

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A 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 has sought to influence how Britons work, how they are educated, the music they listen to, the food they eat, the items in their homes, and even how they remember their own history. Arts and Minds is the remarkable story of an institution unlike any othera society for the improvement of everything and anything.Drawing on exclusive access to a wealth of rare papers and artefacts from the Society's own archives, Anton Howes shows how this vibrant and singularly ambitious organisation has evolved and adapted, constantly having to reinvent itself to keep in step with changing times. The Society has served as a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, purchased and restored an entire village, encouraged the planting of more than sixty million trees, and sought technological alternatives to child labour. But this is more than just a story about unusual public initiatives. It is an engaging and authoritative history of almost three centuries of social reform and competing visions of a better worldthe Society's members have been drawn from across the political spectrum, including Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Karl Marx.Informative and entertaining, Arts and Minds reveals how a society of public-spirited individuals tried to make their country a better place, and draws vital lessons from their triumphs and failures for all would-be reformers today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color + 30 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Agriculture • Albert Medal • Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts) • Annual General Meeting • Arts and Crafts Movement • assistant secretary • Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin Medal • Bicentenary Medal • Bill Bryson • blue plaque • Capitalism • Career • chairman • Charles Dickens • City and Guilds of London Institute • civil service • Competition • contemporary Art • Corn Laws • Customer • David Attenborough • debt • Designer • Direct Democracy • Education • Edwin Chadwick • Emerging Technologies • Employment • engraving • Examination board • Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations • fellow • Fellow of the Royal Society • Festival of Britain • Fine Art • Forgery • Free Trade • Funding • great room • Henry Cole • High Art • history of england • history of ideas • History Painting • Illustration • income • industrialisation • Insider • Institution • Jenny Uglow • John Callcott Horsley • john diefenbaker • John Scott Russell • Joseph Paxton • Lecture • lecturer • Lithography • lobbying • Map of a Nation • Mary Moser • medal • mercantilism • Michael Faraday • middle class • Napoleon III • Natural Philosophy • Nelson Mandela • newspaper • of education • Painting (Blue Star) • Pint • Politician • Politics • Pottery • Profession • Programme (booklet) • Prue Leith • Publicity • Rachel Hewitt • raw material • reform movements • residence • Retail • royal charter • Royal Commission • Royal Designers for Industry • Royal Society of Arts • Satire • Scientist • Seeing Further • Shareholder • shortage • Social Movement • Split infinitive • Stephen Hawking • Subsidy • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Supply (economics) • Supporter • Tax • Teacher • Technology • The Great Exhibition • The Lunar Men • The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society • tim berners-lee • Trade Union • Upper Class • Victoria and Albert Museum • vocational education • waitrose • Wealth • William Hogarth • William Mulready • William Shipley • work of art • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20190-0 / 0691201900
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20190-0 / 9780691201900