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Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe by Suzanne L. Marchand (English) P
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- ISBN-13
- 9780691204239
- Book Title
- Porcelain
- ISBN
- 9780691204239
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History
- Publication Name
- Porcelain : a History from the Heart of Europe
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Industries / General, Social History, Economics / General, Europe / General
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China -- but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony's revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain's ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivalled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain's uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of 'white gold' from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany's cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain's transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691204233
ISBN-13
9780691204239
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16057242575
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Porcelain : a History from the Heart of Europe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Industries / General, Social History, Economics / General, Europe / General
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hd9616.A2
Reviews
"[A] sweeping economic, social and cultural history of central Europe. . . . unorthodox and engaging." ---Marc Levinson, Wall Street Journal, "A wide-ranging and thorough study. . . . this is a riveting story, well told . . . by Marchand, who illuminates so much in an original and entertaining way." ---Tim Blanning, Literary Review, "As an economic-business history, Marchand's work is a landmark achievement. . . . Porcelain is a monumental achievement in scope and breadth in illuminating porcelain's European beginnings and its increasingly fragile position in the markets of the present." ---Megan Brandow-Faller, Central European History, "Marchand, a specialist in German history, writes with clarity." ---Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement, "To weave together cultural, economic, and social history so masterfully takes great historiographical experience and skill. All those who are interested in nineteenth-century German intellectual history admire Suzanne Marchand's books on the reception of classical antiquity and orientalism. Now she has surprised us with something completely new" ---Jürgen Osterhammel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Marchand paints a colourful picture of the day-to-day life of porcelain factories." ---Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, Apollo, As Suzanne Marchand shows in her meticulous new book, porcelain has been integral to German life since its reinvention in Saxony in 1708., "The remarkable achievement of Suzanne Marchand's new book, Porcelain , which focuses especially on Germany, is that she moves beyond the celebrated age of discovery in the eighteenth century...to explore modern manufacture and diffusion across a broader consumer society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .... While Meissen lies at the center of Marchand's book, one of its great strengths is the broader survey of German porcelain manufacturing." ---Larry Wolff, Journal of Modern History
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
338.4766650943
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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