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An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War

Author: Peter H Hoffenberg
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Holfenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
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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