This book argues that a business culture based on embedded socio-cultural norms was an important element in the success of the British-Atlantic economy 1750-1815.
18e-eeuwse Werelden Reeks
Ga op reis door de turbulente 18e eeuw, een tijdperk gedefinieerd door Verlichtingsidealen, sociale omwentelingen en de opkomst van revolutie. Deze serie duikt diep in de levens van individuen uit alle lagen van de bevolking, van de glanzende aristocratie tot het gewone volk, en onderzoekt hoe hun keuzes de moderne wereld hebben gevormd. Elk deel biedt een rijke verkenning van de politieke intriges, de opkomende kunsten en de filosofische stromingen die deze cruciale periode kenmerkten. Het is een meeslepende duik in een geschiedenis die nog steeds resoneert.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
"This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized."-- Provided by publisher