Porcelain : a history from the heart of Europe /

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"This is a history of porcelain as a business and consumer product, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Many books have been written on Chinese porcelain as an exotic import from Asia, but this book tells the history of the Central European reinvention and mass production of the mat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marchand, Suzanne L., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Porcelain industry > Europe, Central > History.
Porcelain industry > History.
Porcelaine > Industrie > Europe centrale > Histoire.
Porcelaine > Industrie > Histoire.
HISTORY / Social History
Porcelain industry.
Porzellan
Porzellanherstellung
Central Europe.
Deutschland
A Thirst for Empire.
Asian imports.
Asian porcelain.
Biedermeier.
Charlottenburg.
Chinese porcelain.
Delftware.
Edmund de Waal.
Erika Rappaport.
Frankfurt Kitchen.
Frederik the Great.
German history.
Hare with the Amber Eyes.
Imagining Consumers.
Janet Gleeson.
Leora Auslander.
Maria Theresa.
Ming porcelain, Kraak.
Paul Betts.
Regina Blaszczyk.
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Sophie Charlotte.
Taste and Power.
The Arcanum.
The Authority of Everyday Objects.
The White Road.
Westerweld Stoneware.
Wilhelmine plastic.
consumer culture.
consumerism.
earthenware.
faience.
faienceries.
luxury goods.
mass production.
mercantile state production.
mercantilism.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Note on Currencies and Other Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Reinventing the Recipe
  • Chapter 2. The Challenge of Wedgwood and the Rise of the Private Firm
  • Chapter 3. Making, Marketing, and Consuming in the "Golden Age"
  • Chapter 4. Surviving the Revolutions
  • Chapter 5. The Discrete Charms of Biedermeier Porcelain
  • Chapter 6. Of Capitalism and Cartels
  • Chapter 7. Porcelain, the Wilhelmine Plastic
  • Chapter 8. The Fragility of Interwar Porcelain
  • Chapter 9. From Cold War Wonder to Contemporary White Elephant
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Image Credits
  • Index

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