Lives of the Founders of the British Museum
Author: Edward Edwards
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Published: 1969-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9780833710055
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Author: Edward Edwards
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Published: 1969-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9780833710055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Mackenzie Wilson
Publisher: Peoples of the Past
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Museum is the oldest publicly funded museum in the world. This volume tells the story of the collections, the buildings that house them, and the people who have administered and curated them since its foundation in 1753.
Author: Edward Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-17
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1108014968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second in a two-volume work about the founders of the British Museum.
Author: James Delbourgo
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2019-03-18
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780674237483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph
Author: Miriam Stead
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tracey Turner
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781788006712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gareth Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714123370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples and inhabited an expansive and changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic World and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today. Highlighting an extraordinary range of objects and featuring new discoveries by archaeologists and metal-detector users, the cultural connections between Europe, Byzantium and the Middle East are explored in absorbing detail. Vikings: life and legend is published to complement a major exhibition developed jointly by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen and the Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Berlin.
Author: Neil MacGregor
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 1101875674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
Author: Edward Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9780415148726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund de Waal
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780714123479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to mark the display of library of exile at the British Museum, this beautifully produced new book reflects on the themes raised by de Waal's thought-provoking work of art. A preface by Booker Prize-nominated author Elif Shafak reflects on the importance of literature and its capacity to transcend language and borders. The introduction from Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, positions the artwork within the wider context of the Museum's collection, highlighting the dialogue between objects from across time and throughout history and the contemporary. Finally, de Waal concentrates on the work itself, its journey to the British Museum via Venice and Dresden, and its future role in the foundation of the New University Library in Mosul.