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- catalog abstract ""The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Holfenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12068903.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Holfenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Exhibitions and the New Imperialism -- 2. The Exhibition Wallahs: Commissioners and the Production of Imperial Knowledge -- 3. Commissioners and the State: Power and Controversy at the Exhibitions -- 4. Consumers, Producers, and Markets: The Political Economy of Imperial Federation -- 5. Terrae Nullius?: Australia and India at Overseas Exhibitions -- 6. Machines-in-Motion: Technology, Labor, and the Ironies of Industrialism -- 7. Imperial and National Taxonomies: Entertaining and Policing Exhibition Visitors -- 8. The Imperial Pilgrims' Progress: Ceremonies, Tourism, and Epic Theater at the Exhibitions -- Epilogue: Recessional: Imperial Culture and Colonial Nationalism -- App. A. Major Australian, English, and Indian Exhibitions, 1851-1914 -- App. B. Prominent Exhibition Commissioners, 1851-1914 -- App. C. English Government Expenditures for Selected Exhibitions, 1851-1914.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 418 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520218914 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Australia".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog subject "907/.4 21".
- catalog subject "Exhibitions Australia History.".
- catalog subject "Exhibitions Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Exhibitions India History.".
- catalog subject "T395.5.G7 H64 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Exhibitions and the New Imperialism -- 2. The Exhibition Wallahs: Commissioners and the Production of Imperial Knowledge -- 3. Commissioners and the State: Power and Controversy at the Exhibitions -- 4. Consumers, Producers, and Markets: The Political Economy of Imperial Federation -- 5. Terrae Nullius?: Australia and India at Overseas Exhibitions -- 6. Machines-in-Motion: Technology, Labor, and the Ironies of Industrialism -- 7. Imperial and National Taxonomies: Entertaining and Policing Exhibition Visitors -- 8. The Imperial Pilgrims' Progress: Ceremonies, Tourism, and Epic Theater at the Exhibitions -- Epilogue: Recessional: Imperial Culture and Colonial Nationalism -- App. A. Major Australian, English, and Indian Exhibitions, 1851-1914 -- App. B. Prominent Exhibition Commissioners, 1851-1914 -- App. C. English Government Expenditures for Selected Exhibitions, 1851-1914.".
- catalog title "An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War / Peter H. Hoffenberg.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".