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

• Autore: Hoffenberg Peter H. <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (466 p.)
• Disciplina: 907/.4
• Soggetto topico: Exhibitions - Australia - History; Exhibitions - Great Britain - History; Exhibitions - India - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Exhibitions and the new imperialism; 2. The exhibition wallahs; 3. Commissioners and the state; 4. Consumers, producers, and markets; 5. Terrae nullius?; 6. Machines-in-motion; 7. Imperial and national taxonomies; 8. The imperial pilgrims' progress; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An empire on display
• ISBN: 0-520-92296-4; 1-59734-594-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817148103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II