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The radical potter : the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood / Tristram Hunt.
LIBRA NK4210.W4 H86 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Tristram, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.
- Wedgwood, Josiah.
- Potters--England--Biography.
- Potters.
- Abolitionists.
- England.
- Abolitionists--England--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 323 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- Summary:
- "From one of Britain's leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- This Rugged Pott-Making Spot of Earth
- I Saw the Field was Spacious
- A Grateful Heart
- A Name Has a Wonderful Effect
- The Arts of Etruria are Reborn
- That Island of Wisdom, Courage and Virtue
- Machines of Men
- This Enlightened Age
- The Subject of Freedom
- The Inclination of the Scales.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Allen Lane, London."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hunt, Tristram, 1974- Radical potter.
- ISBN:
- 9781250128348
- 125012834X
- OCLC:
- 1258041378
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