The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays /Louise Purbrick
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TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave , 2001Description: x, 217 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780719055928
- 907.4421 PUR
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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.
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.
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