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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter H Hoffenberg |
| ISBN: | 0520218914 9780520218918 |
| OCLC Number: | 44713245 |
| Description: | xxvii, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Exhibitions and the New Imperialism -- 2. The Exhibition Wallahs: Commissioners and the Production of Imperial Knowledge -- 3. Commissioners and the State: Power and Controversy at the Exhibitions -- 4. Consumers, Producers, and Markets: The Political Economy of Imperial Federation -- 5. Terrae Nullius?: Australia and India at Overseas Exhibitions -- 6. Machines-in-Motion: Technology, Labor, and the Ironies of Industrialism -- 7. Imperial and National Taxonomies: Entertaining and Policing Exhibition Visitors -- 8. The Imperial Pilgrims' Progress: Ceremonies, Tourism, and Epic Theater at the Exhibitions -- Epilogue: Recessional: Imperial Culture and Colonial Nationalism -- App. A. Major Australian, English, and Indian Exhibitions, 1851-1914 -- App. B. Prominent Exhibition Commissioners, 1851-1914 -- App. C. English Government Expenditures for Selected Exhibitions, 1851-1914 |
| Responsibility: | Peter H. Hoffenberg. |
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Abstract:
The exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which this book examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the Empire. It focuses on exhibitions in England, Australia, and India from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Empire.
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Related Subjects:(17)
- Exhibitions -- Great Britain -- History.
- Exhibitions -- India -- History.
- Exhibitions -- Australia -- History.
- Tentoonstellingen.
- Sociale aspecten.
- Imperialisme.
- Kolonialisme.
- Commonwealth.
- Ausstellung.
- Selbstdarstellung.
- Großbritannien.
- Indien.
- Australien.
- Expositions -- Australie -- Histoire.
- Expositions -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Expositions -- Inde -- Histoire.
- Expositions internationales -- Histoire.
