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082 _a907.4421 PUR
100 _aLouise Purbrick
245 _aThe Great Exhibition of 1851
_b: new interdisciplinary essays
_c/Louise Purbrick
260 _aManchester, UK ; New York
_b: Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
_c, 2001
300 _ax, 217 pages
_c; 23 cm
365 _b1566
505 _a 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.
520 _a 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.
650 _aHistory
655 _aExhibitions -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
700 _aLouise Purbrick
942 _cBOOK