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
- Visit British Library's website
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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