{"product_id":"the-british-museum","title":"James Hamilton: The British Museum [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's \u003ci\u003eDictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, the French \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedie\u003c\/i\u003e and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiricism - the bringing together of things to enable the widest intellectual experiment to take place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Hamilton explores the establishment of the Museum in the 1750s (from the bequest to the nation of the collections of Sir Hans Sloane); the chosen site of its location; the cultural context in which it came into being; the subsequent development, expansion and diversification of the Museum, both as a collection and as a building, from the early 19th to the 21st century; the controversy occasioned by some of its acquisitions; and the legacy and influence of the Museum nationally and globally.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamilton, James","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46473534144851,"sku":"9781786691835","price":23.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hamilton-james-james-hamilton-the-british-museum-2018-hardback-9781786691835-1147302917.jpg?v=1742077774","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-british-museum","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}