Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order

By (author): "Joseph Bristow, Paul Young"
Genres:Museums books  
Publish Date: January 29th 2009
Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
ISBN0230520758
ISBN139780230520752
AsinGlobalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
Original titleGlobalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
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.