Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order - Rilegato

Young, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0230520758 ISBN 13: 9780230520752

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Riassunto

This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

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Recensione:

'Young's thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions, discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibition's abstract 'grand narratives' and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired.' - ZAA

Descrizione del libro:

This book foregrounds a capitalist vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society in 1851, emphasizing that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230520758
• ISBN 13: 9780230520752
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 249
• Redattore: Bristow Joseph