The Great Exhibition of 1851
Subtitle: A Nation on Display
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300080070
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Social history; Technology: General Issues; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain - History - 19th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; General; (1851 :; Great Exhibition; London, England)
Description: "Enhanced by dozens of illustrations, this wide-ranging account of the Great Exhibition reveals how the extraordinary occasion was conceived, why it was such an unexpected success, what it actually meant to the millions of Britons who visited it, and what it came to mean in later generations."--BOOK JACKET.

"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.