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Book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals

Download or read book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals written by Laurence Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760 1960  Vol  I

Download or read book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760 1960 Vol I written by Laurence Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals  1760 1960  The accession of George III to the death of William IV

Download or read book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760 1960 The accession of George III to the death of William IV written by Laurence A. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1837 1901

Download or read book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1837 1901 written by Laurence Brown (numismate.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals  1760 1960

Download or read book A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760 1960 written by Laurence A. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol.1 The accession of George III to the death of William IVvol.2 The reign of Queen Victoriavol.3 The accession of Edward VII to 1960.

Book Catalogue of British Medals Since 1760

Download or read book Catalogue of British Medals Since 1760 written by M. H. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the Indiana University Art Museum

Download or read book Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the Indiana University Art Museum written by Indiana University, Bloomington. Art Museum and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning six centuries and seven countries, the Middeldorf Collection--assembled by the late eminent art historian Ulrich Middeldorf--provides an extraordinary overview of major personalities and of political, social, cultural, and religious events as depicted in more than 350 medals and plaquettes. Illustrated in full color and accompanied by extensive documentation are commemorations of kings, queens, emperors, poets, composers, physicians, artists, inventors, popes, cardinals, and bishops. Papal annual and jubilee medals and delightful French reliefs from the Belle Époque complement medals from the eras of Louis XIV and XV, Napoleon, and the Risorgimento. Highlights of the collection are Italian medals from the 17th century and later--periods that until recently have received little scholarly attention.

Book A New History of the Royal Mint

Download or read book A New History of the Royal Mint written by C. E. Challis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-19 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.

Book All That Glittered

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  • Author : Timothy Alborn
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0190603518
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book All That Glittered written by Timothy Alborn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.

Book Catalogue of British India Historical Medals

Download or read book Catalogue of British India Historical Medals written by Robert P. Puddester and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The King s Artists   The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760 1840

Download or read book The King s Artists The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760 1840 written by Holger Hoock and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicization of art during the American and French Revolutions. By demonstrating how the Academy shaped the notions of an English and British school of art and influenced the emergence of the British cultural state, he illuminates the politics of national culture and the character of British public life in an age of war, revolution, and reform.

Book British Historical Medals of the 17th Century

Download or read book British Historical Medals of the 17th Century written by Jerome Platt and published by Spink Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As attractive as historical or commemorative medals are in their own right and as telling as they are by their designs and inscriptions of the persons or events they honour (or, in some cases, vilify or deride), they tell us much more: by means of inscriptions, design and allegory, they tell us their age, of their makers, of the purpose for which they were made, the manner in which they were made, and the 'story' their maker wished to communicate.

Book The Memoirs of Lt  Henry Timberlake

Download or read book The Memoirs of Lt Henry Timberlake written by Henry Timberlake and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern scholarly edition of what is considered the most detailed ethnographic account of Cherokee life in the late 18th century. Timberlake•s memoirs describe the months he spent living with the Cherokees then escorting a delegation to London to meet King George III. He provides details of daily life, including ceremonies, games, the role of women, the preparation of food, and the creation of weapons, baskets, and pottery. This edition pairs the original text with extensive footnotes and annotiations, a new introduction, index, and more than 100 illustrations, including artifacts, maps, period artwork, and contemporary artwork.

Book Classical Numismatic Group XXIV

Download or read book Classical Numismatic Group XXIV written by and published by Classical Numismatic Group. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: