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Arts and minds : how the Royal Society of Arts changed a nation / Anton Howes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howes, Anton, author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Research institutes--Great Britain--Influence.
- Research institutes.
- Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)--History.
- Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain).
- Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- From 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. This book is the remarkable story of an institution unlike any other - a society for the improvement of everything and anything. The book shows how this vibrant and singularly ambitious organisation has evolved and adapted, constantly having to reinvent itself to keep in step with changing times.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780691201900
- 0691201900
- OCLC:
- 1143620020
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