Globalization and the Great Exhibition - The Victorian New World Order (Hardcover, New)


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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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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Product Details

General

Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Release date

2009

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2009

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

249

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-230-52075-2

Barcode

9780230520752

Categories

LSN

0-230-52075-8



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