Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
by
Lara Kriegel, Daniel J. Walkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought...