Title & Author:

The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays / Louise Purbrick, editor.

Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.

Description:

x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Texts in culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye / Steve Edwards -- An industrial vision : the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain / Rafael Cardoso Denis -- Entrepreneurship and the artisans : John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea / Brian Maidment -- An appropriated space : the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class / Peter Gurney -- Narrating the subcontinent in 1851 : India at the Crystal Palace / Lara Kriegel -- Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition : authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures / Richard Pearson.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0719055911 (hc.)
9780719055911 (hc.)
071905592X (pbk.)
9780719055928 (pbk.)

Subject:

London / Weltausstellung <1851>
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Great Exhibition
Weltausstellung 1851 London
Exhibitions England London History 19th century.
Expositions Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Exhibitions
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
England London
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.
History

Added entries:

Purbrick, Louise.
Texts in culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219927
Call No.: T690.B1 G7 2001
Status: Available