Emmanuel Cooper OBE is internationally known as a potter, writer, critic and broadcaster and as Editor of the influential international magazine Ceramic Review. He is Visiting Professor of Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art and a member of the Arts Council of England. He has written widely on both modern and historical ceramics and was a contributor to Pottery in the Making. His History of World Pottery sold over 25,000 copies in three editions and he is the author of numerous practical books including A Handbook of Pottery, Taking Up Pottery and Glazes for the Studio Potter. He has also written books on Bernard Leach and Lucy Rie.

Introduction 1 Early Beginnings 2 The Ancient World: Cyprus, The Cyclades, Greece, Italy 3 The Oriental World: China, Korea, Japan, South-East Asia 4 The Islamic World 5 Continental European Earthenwares and Stonewares: Byzantium, Italy, Spain and Portugal, Germany, France, The Low Countries, Scandinavia 6 Britain: c. 200 BC until AD 1800 7 European Porcelain: Germany, France, Italy and Spain, Scandinavia, The Low Countries and Russia, Britain and Ireland 8 American-Indian Pottery 9 Living Traditions: Modern Tribal and Indigenous Societies 10 Modern America 11 Craft into Industry: Britain 1750-1900 12 The Arts and Crafts Movement: Britain, North America, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, 1850-1920 13 Artist-Potters 14 Studio Ceramics Today: Frivolity, Self-Expression, Content Glossary of Technical Terms, Museum and National Collections of Pottery Bibliography, Illustration References, Index of Names