Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851

by Jeffrey A Auerbach, Peter H Hoffenberg

Overview

Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition is the first book to situate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in a truly global context. Addressing national, imperial, and international themes, this collection of essays considers the significance of the Exhibition both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the globe. How did the Exhibition connect London, England, important British colonies, and significant participating nation-states including Russia, Greece, Germany and the Ottoman Empire? How might we think about the exhibits, visitors and organizers in light of what the Exhibition suggested about Britain’s place in the global community?

Contributors from various academic disciplines answer these and other questions by focusing on the many exhibits, publications, visitors and organizers in Britain and elsewhere. The essays expand our understanding of the meanings, roles and legacies of the Great Exhibition for British society and the wider world, as well as the ways that this pivotal event shaped Britain’s and other participating nations’ conceptions of and locations within the wider nineteenth-century world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409480082
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Peter H. Hoffenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa, USA. Jeffrey A. Auerbach is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Northridge, USA.

Jeffrey A. Auerbach, Paul Young, Kylie Message, Ewan Johnston, Louise Purbrick, Peter H. Hoffenberg, David C. Fisher, John R. Davis, Debbie Challis, Francesca Vanke.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Jeffrey A. Auerbach; Part 1 England, Exhibitions, and Empire: Mission impossible: globalisation and the Great Exhibition, Paul Young; The world within the city: the Great Exhibition, race, class and social reform, Kylie Message and Ewan Johnston; Defining nation: Ireland at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Louise Purbrick; ' A valuable and tolerably extensive collection of native and other products': New Zealand at the Crystal Palace, Ewan Johnston; ' Nothing very new, or very showy to exhibit': Australia at the Great Exhibition and after, Peter H. Hoffenberg. Part 2 Europe, the Orient, and the Spaces in Between: Russia and the Crystal Palace in 1851, David C. Fisher; The Great Exhibition and the German states, John R. Davis; Modern to ancient: Greece at the Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace, Debbie Challis; Degrees of otherness: the Ottoman Empire and China at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Francesca Vanke; Select bibliography; Index.