The Great Exhibition of 1851 : a nation on display / Jeffrey A. Auerbach.

Main entry:

Auerbach, Jeffrey A., 1965-

Title & Author:

The Great Exhibition of 1851 : a nation on display / Jeffrey A. Auerbach.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.

Description:

viii, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
pt. I. Making -- 1. Origins : conceiving the exhibition -- 2. Obstacles : planning the exhibition -- 3. Organization : selling the exhibition -- pt. II. Meaning -- 4. Commerce and culture -- 5. Integration and segregation -- 6. Nationalism and internationalism -- pt. III. Memory -- 7. Palace of the people -- 8. Legacy and nostalgia.

Summary:

"Enhanced by dozens of illustrations, this wide-ranging account of the Great Exhibition reveals how the extraordinary occasion was conceived, why it was such an unexpected success, what it actually meant to the millions of Britons who visited it, and what it came to mean in later generations." "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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0300080077 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300080070 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0030008077
9780030008078

Subject:

Great exhibition. 1851 Londres, Grande-Bretagne.
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Great Exhibition (1851 : Londres, Angleterre)
Great Exhibition.
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
Exhibitions England London 19th century.
Great exhibition (1851 ; Londres, Grande-Bretagne)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205516
Call No.: T690 .B1 A94 1999
Status: Available

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