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In The Tyranny of Taste, Jules Lubbock explores the history of British taste and the debates which have surrounded it over the last 400 hundred years. The treatment is not purely art-historical, but also draws upon social and economic history, literary and moral criticism, and the relationship between industry and design. Obviously this is an enormous topic, and Lubbock does not attempt to cover every aspect of it. Instead, he focuses upon key periods, 'when ideas were in flux, when debates were keen, and when policy was being formed - the early seventeenth century, the ...