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

Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Title Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851 PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 246
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 9780754662419

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This collection of essays discusses the significance of colonial and foreign participation at the Great Exhibition in 1851, including the exhibits, publications, officials, and visitors, before, during, and after the event in London's Crystal Palace. These essays consider the ways that the Exhibition connected London, England and many parts of the world, suggesting strong imperial, international and global connections and meanings. In doing so, the contributors consider the importance of the event for England and the participating colonies and nations, as well as the ways by which that participation affected their relationship to Britain and how the British saw their place in the world. Unlike other publications, this one emphasizes both nationalism and internationalism, domestic and foreign issues.

The Great Exhibition of 1851

The Great Exhibition of 1851
Title The Great Exhibition of 1851 PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 300
Release 1999-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780300080070

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"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

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

Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Title Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851 PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher Routledge
Pages 238
Release 2016-04-15
Genre History
ISBN 1317172272

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Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition is the first book to situate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in a truly global context. Addressing national, imperial, and international themes, this collection of essays considers the significance of the Exhibition both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the globe. How did the Exhibition connect London, England, important British colonies, and significant participating nation-states including Russia, Greece, Germany and the Ottoman Empire? How might we think about the exhibits, visitors and organizers in light of what the Exhibition suggested about Britain’s place in the global community? Contributors from various academic disciplines answer these and other questions by focusing on the many exhibits, publications, visitors and organizers in Britain and elsewhere. The essays expand our understanding of the meanings, roles and legacies of the Great Exhibition for British society and the wider world, as well as the ways that this pivotal event shaped Britain’s and other participating nations’ conceptions of and locations within the wider nineteenth-century world.

An Empire on Display

An Empire on Display
Title An Empire on Display PDF eBook
Author Peter H. Hoffenberg
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 467
Release 2001-05-20
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0520218914

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An examination of world's fairs in Britain and its two most important 19th-century colonies, Australia and India; arguing that the fairs provided a forum for shaping both national and imperial identities.

The Great Exhibition of 1851

The Great Exhibition of 1851
Title The Great Exhibition of 1851 PDF eBook
Author Louise Purbrick
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 236
Release 2001
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780719055928

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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.

Globalization and the Great Exhibition

Globalization and the Great Exhibition
Title Globalization and the Great Exhibition PDF eBook
Author Paul Young
Publisher Springer
Pages 261
Release 2009-01-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 023059431X

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This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

Exhibiting the Empire

Exhibiting the Empire
Title Exhibiting the Empire PDF eBook
Author John McAleer
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 304
Release 2017-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 1526118343

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Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.