Main entry:

Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxvii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

Electronic resource (access conditions).

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-404) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520218914 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520218918 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Commonwealth
Exhibitions Great Britain History.
Exhibitions India History.
Exhibitions Australia History.
Expositions Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Expositions Inde Histoire.
Expositions Australie Histoire.
02.14 organization of science and culture.
Exhibitions
Selbstdarstellung
Ausstellung
Tentoonstellingen.
Sociale aspecten.
Imperialisme.
Kolonialisme.
Expositions internationales Histoire.
Australia
Great Britain
India
Großbritannien
Indien
Australien

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Geschichte 1851-1911.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215486
Call No.: T395.5.G7 H6 2001
Status: Available