Beauty and Power, Global Design, 1840-1914

Beauty and Power serves as an accessible general introduction to the origins of modern design and an original contribution to understanding the role that cross-cultural processes have played in design's history. How did modern design in its origins begin to transform lives globally? This is the first history of the origins of modern design intended for general readers to discuss examples from Africa, Asia, and the Islamic World. Beauty and Power not only accounts for cross-cultural sources and e