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- catalog abstract ""Asa Briggs examines a wide range of Victorian objects and the way in which they express and reflect the preoccupations of Victorian society. He includes information on museums and exhibitions, commemorative artefacts, home furnishings and decoration, hats and other headgear, coal, matches, stamps, telephones and typewriters, spectacles and cameras. A whole world is recaptured for the modern reader, with surprising, delightful, amusing and amazing objects paraded throughout this book."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13026633.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Asa Briggs examines a wide range of Victorian objects and the way in which they express and reflect the preoccupations of Victorian society. He includes information on museums and exhibitions, commemorative artefacts, home furnishings and decoration, hats and other headgear, coal, matches, stamps, telephones and typewriters, spectacles and cameras. A whole world is recaptured for the modern reader, with surprising, delightful, amusing and amazing objects paraded throughout this book."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Things as Emissaries -- 2. The Great Victorian Collection -- 3. The Philosophy of the Eye: Spectacles, Cameras and the New Vision -- 4. Images of Fame -- 5. The Wonders of Common Things -- 6. Hearth and Home -- 7. Hats, Caps and Bonnets -- 8. Carboniferous Capitalism: Coal, Iron and Paper -- 9. Stamps -- Used and Unused -- 10. New Things -- and Old.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "406 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0750933399".
- catalog isPartOf "Sutton history classics".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.081 21".
- catalog subject "DA550 .B75 2003".
- catalog subject "Material culture Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Things as Emissaries -- 2. The Great Victorian Collection -- 3. The Philosophy of the Eye: Spectacles, Cameras and the New Vision -- 4. Images of Fame -- 5. The Wonders of Common Things -- 6. Hearth and Home -- 7. Hats, Caps and Bonnets -- 8. Carboniferous Capitalism: Coal, Iron and Paper -- 9. Stamps -- Used and Unused -- 10. New Things -- and Old.".
- catalog title "Victorian things / Asa Briggs.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".