TY - BOOK AU - Louise Purbrick AU - Louise Purbrick TI - The Great Exhibition of 1851 : : new interdisciplinary essays SN - 9780719055928 U1 - 907.4421 PUR PY - 2001/// CY - Manchester, UK ; New York PB - : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave KW - History KW - Exhibitions -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -