The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I.
Author: Frederick Pollock
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13:
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Uses of Heritage
Author: Laurajane Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134368038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Royal Commission on Historica Monuments
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-24
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780666310835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Vol. 1 Few informal words will not, I trust, be out of place by way of introduction to this Inventory, and may help to explain both the arrangement of these pages and the manner in which the monuments have been recorded. The volume contains (in addition to the terms Of appointment and Official report) a Sectional Preface which, under subject headings, calls attention to any particularly interesting examples mentioned in the Inventory an illustrated Inventory, with a concise account of the monuments visited; a list of monuments that the Commissioners have selected as especially worthy of preservation a glossary of architectural, heraldic, and archaeological terms; a map showing the topographical distribution of the scheduled monuments, and an index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dilettanti
Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0892369248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0300133502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Slavery and the British Country House
Author: Madge Dresser
Publisher: Historic England Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848020641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.
