An empire on display
Subtitle: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War
By: Peter H. Hoffenberg.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Exhibitions -- Great Britain -- History.; Exhibitions -- India -- History.; Exhibitions -- Australia -- History.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index.