Eighteenth-century ceramics : products for a civilised society
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Eighteenth-century ceramics : products for a civilised society
（Studies in design and material culture）
Manchester University Press, 1999
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardback ISBN 9780719044649
Description
Using documents, diaries, novels and conventions of the time, this volume describes the social uses and cultural meanings of fine ceramics in the 18th century: porcelain, blue and white earthenware and creamwares. Rather than placing the objects themselves at the centre, this approach focuses on the people who used, criticized, sold and stole them, and investigates the impact these products had on the practical and imaginative lives of the 18th-century middle class. These "middling sort" of people were now able to provide refined receptacles to support the social rituals of "polite" society and these artefacts were invested with values and emblematic meanings alongside their practical or ornamental functions. Fine ceramics reinforced the social practices which represented a desire for greater refinement and comfort and were significant in framing and maintaining civilized patterns of behaviour.
Table of Contents
- The European context
- the European courts
- material progress in the production of porcelain. The economics of production and distribution in Britain: the economics of production
- taste and commerce
- politics and commerce
- business structures and money systems
- the organization of labour
- methods of distribution
- the market as spectacle
- contested property. The middle-class consumer - attitudes and values: material values
- social and cultural refinements
- middle-class ownership of fine ceramics
- taste and sensibility. Fine ceramics in social use: comforting refinement
- convivial spaces
- intimate spaces
- kitchen and table
- toxic vessels. The transmission of visual styles: images of the East
- taxonomies - ceramic production and natural histories
- emblems and personifications
- a taste for the antique.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719044656
Description
This book probes the causes of and conditions for the preference of the members of the British-Bangladeshi community for a religion-based identity vis-a-vis ethnicity-based identity, and the influence of Islamists in shaping the discourse. The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of multiculturalism in Europe. Empirically grounded but enriched with in-depth analysis, and written in an accessible language this study is an invaluable reference for academics, policy makers and community activists. Students and researchers of British politics, ethnic/migration/diaspora studies, cultural studies, and political Islam will find the book extremely useful. -- .
Table of Contents
- The European context
- the European courts
- material progress in the production of porcelain. The economics of production and distribution in Britain: the economics of production
- taste and commerce
- politics and comerce
- business structures and money systems
- the organization of labour
- methods of distribution
- the market as spectacle
- contested property. The middle-class consumer - attitudes and values: material values
- social and cultural refinements
- middle-class ownership of fine ceramics
- taste and sensibility. Fine ceramics in social use: comforting refinement
- convivial spaces
- intimate spaces
- kitchen and table
- toxic vessels. The transmission of visual styles: images of the East
- taxonomies - ceramic production and natural histories
- emblems and personifications
- a taste for the antique.
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