This scholarly yet highly accessible book illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven and shaped the character of British public life.
Holger Hoock is the Reader (Associate Professor) in British History and Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Centre at the University of Liverpool. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, he currently lives in Washington, D.C.
A bold, provocative and ambitious book ... it presents a wide
perspective on an exceptionally significant era for the British
world
*Ludmilla Jordanova, Professor of Modern History, King’s College
London*
An excellent book, brimming with insights and splendid
illustrations ... a sumptuous treat indeed
*Daily Telegraph*
Terrific
*Financial Times*
Chock full of vivid case studies ... beautifully done
*Spectator*
Beautifully produced, closely argued and deeply researched ... an
important, weighty book. It deserves close scrutiny and a warm
reception.
*BBC History Magazine*
An ambitious, authoritative survey of British visual culture in an
age of imperial ascent
*Guardian*
Hoock's analysis is of an astonishing breadth. His narrative
architecture renders his book pleasurable to the academic and the
amateur historian alike. It proves equally entertaining and
encyclopaedic by virtue of good story-telling ... by his deft
discernment of pattern in detail, he proves himself master of his
subject in this empire of political and artistic tales
*Oxonian Review*
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