Jeffrey A. Auerbach

Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Herausgeber: Hoffenberg, Peter H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the global, international and imperial characteristics of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. This collection of essays considers how and why the Exhibition was significant both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780754662419
• ISBN-10: 0754662411
• Artikelnr.: 44972950

Autorenporträt

Peter H. Hoffenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA. Jeffrey A. Auerbach is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Northridge, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 England, Exhibitions and Empire; Chapter 1 Mission Impossible:
Globalization and the Great Exhibition, Paul Young; Chapter 2 The World
within the City: The Great Exhibition, Race, Class and Social Reform, Kylie
Message, Ewan Johnston; Chapter 3 *A Visiting Fellowship at Yale Center for
British Art enabled Louise Purbrick to carry out research on Ireland at the
Great Exhibition of 1851, and she would like to thank the Center for its
generous support and the staff for their help., Louise Purbrick; Chapter 4
'A Valuable and Tolerably Extensive Collection of Native and Other
Products': New Zealand at the Crystal Palace, Ewan Johnston; Chapter 5
'Nothing Very New or Very Showy to Exhibit'?: Australia at the Great
Exhibition and After, Peter H Hoffenberg; Part 2 Europe, the Orient, and
the Spaces in Between; Chapter 6 *Research for this essay was made possible
by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship from
the United States Department of Education, and grants from the Indiana
University Russian and East European Studies Institute and Department of
History., David C Fisher; Chapter 7 The Great Exhibition and the German
States, John R Davis; Chapter 8 Modern to Ancient: Greece at the Great
Exhibition and the Crystal Palace, Debbie Challis; Chapter 9 Degrees of
Otherness: The Ottoman Empire and China at the Great Exhibition of 1851,
Francesca Vanke;