Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order

by Paul Young

Overview

This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230520752
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/29/2009
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

PAUL YOUNG is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Millennial Dream The Great Family of Man Geography Made Easy Reorienting the World Pax Britannica Postscript: America, Anglobalization and the Great Exhibition Works Cited Index

Editorial Reviews

'Young's thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions, discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibition's abstract 'grand narratives' and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired.' - ZAA

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