Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
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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Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
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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Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
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Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780230520752 |
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| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication date: | 01/29/2009 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series |
| Edition description: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 249 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d) |
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