The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays

The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays /

These essays expose how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains readings of the historical record of the exhibition, exploring the use of industrial knowledge & the contested definitions of nation & colony.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Purbrick, Louise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.
Series:Texts in culture
Subjects:
London / Weltausstellung <1851>
Great Exhibition > (1851 : > London, England)
Great Exhibition.
Weltausstellung > 1851 > London
1800-1899
Exhibitions > England > London > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions.
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
England > London.
Aufsatzsammlung
Aufsatzsammlung.
v > Essays.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye / Steve Edwards
  • An industrial vision : the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain / Rafael Cardoso Denis
  • Entrepreneurship and the artisans : John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea / Brian Maidment
  • An appropriated space : the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class / Peter Gurney
  • Narrating the subcontinent in 1851 : India at the Crystal Palace / Lara Kriegel
  • Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition : authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures / Richard Pearson.

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