Chinese blue and white porcelain was a unique contribution to the history of ceramic technology, and from its development at the beginning of the 14th century, through its technical originality and artistic brilliance, it has continued to captivate and inspire the whole world. This copiously illustrated book traces the history and evolution of ...
The South Sea Bubble of 1720-1 was the first and most celebrated of all the great financial scandals. But the failure of the South Sea Company, which had undertaken to take over the National Debt, was to cause more than a catastrophic financial crisis, shattering a confident government. It invaded every aspect of British life. Its enormous ...
The Turkish pottery at Iznik, ancient Nicaea, supplied the Ottoman court with luxurious vessels and tiles. One of the great glories of the Ottoman art at its peak period, the designs combine Turkish motifs with elements transposed from imported Chinese blue-and white porcelain. The examples illustrated in this text are mostly drawn from the ...
Traces the development of the Arab sea trade in the Indian Ocean, from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to its period of greatest power in the 9th and 10th centuries AD. This edition includes a new introduction, notes and a bibliography.
This book describes the programme of rapid expansion set out for British Universities in the Robbins Report of 1963, and tells the actual story of its performance up to the early 1980s. The prescription and the realisation often differed in vital ways, and Mr Carswell is able to give an insider's view, fascinating and sometimes controversial, of ...
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