Radical Potter. Josiah Wedgwood and the transformation of Britain

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Author(s) Hunt, Tristram
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2019
Pages 352pp; illus
Publisher Allen Lane
Place Published London

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Written by the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Comprises a biography of Wedgwood dealing with his innovations in business - technology, organisation, marketing, etc -; his contribution to the creation of a broad consumer market in luxury goods; his position on the wider issues of the day - free trade, slavery abolition, religious tolerance, etc. Significant coverage of Lunar Society