An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War / Peter H. Hoffenberg

Author(s): Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960-

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Main Title
An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War
Author(s)
Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960-
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001
Collation
xxvii, 418 p. : ill.
24 cm.
Summary
Review: "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 exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration."--Jacket.
ISBN
9780520218918
Dewey Class
907.4
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 Nullae? 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 -- Illustrations -- Appendix A. Major Australian, English, and Indian Exhibitions, 1851-1914 -- Appendix B. Prominent Exhibition Commissioners -- Appendix C. English Government Expenditures for Selected Exhibitions, 1851-1914.
Language
English
Subject
Exhibitions -- India -- History
Exhibitions -- Great Britain -- History
BRN
4444

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