The radical potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the transformation of Britain

Abstract

"From one of Britain's leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

This Rugged Pott-Making Spot of Earth -- I Saw the Field was Spacious -- A Grateful Heart -- A Name Has a Wonderful Effect -- The Arts of Etruria are Reborn -- That Island of Wisdom, Courage and Virtue -- Machines of Men -- This Enlightened Age -- The Subject of Freedom -- The Inclination of the Scales.