{"product_id":"the-radical-potter-9781250848963","title":"The Radical Potter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Britain's leading historians and the director of the Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWedgwood's pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medalliondepicting an enslaved African and inscribed Am I Not a Man and a Brother?bec\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528991744343,"sku":"9781250848963","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250848963.jpg?v=1731873868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-radical-potter-9781250848963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}