: new interdisciplinary essays Louise Purbrick creator Louise Purbrick text Exhibitions -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave , 2001 monographic eng

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x, 217 pages ; 23 cm 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. 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. /Louise Purbrick History 907.4421 PUR 9780719055928 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002 200108 20200213125119.0