The Victorian vision : inventing new Britain by MacKenzie, John M. (John MacDonald), 1943- instant download

The Victorian vision : inventing new Britain by MacKenzie, John M. (John MacDonald), 1943- instant download

360 pages : 30 cm, \"The Victorians were people with vision - they were ambitious and outward looking, always seeking to change and improve society. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the V & A, this illustrated and broad-ranging survey looks at how the Victorians went about creating a new, more modern world: at home in domestic and public life, and globally, as the Empire expanded and widened their horizons. They achieved this through a combination of technology, trade and new ideas.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-357) and index, Royal patronage and influence / Delia Millar -- Home and leisure / John K. Walton -- Small adults : education and the life of children / Anthony Burton -- Votes for women and chastity for men : gender, health, medicine and sexuality / Jan Marsh -- Religion and doubt / Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Paul Atterbury -- Steam and speed : industry, transport and communications / Paul Atterbury -- Inventing a new design technology : building and engineering / Robert Thorne -- Technology, tradition and the dilemmas of design / Suzanne Fagence Cooper -- Images and impressions : printing, reproduction and photography / James Ryan -- Empire and the global gaze / John M. MacKenzie -- The art and industry of Mammon : international exhibitions, 1851-1901 / Paul Greenhalgh -- The natural world / Harriet Ritvo -- Art and design : East Asia / Anna Jackson -- Imperial visions : responses to India and Africa in Victorian art and design / Tim Barringer -- The world of art and design : white colonials / Jonathan Sweet, Copies A, B, C collated 20010410