Globalization and the Great Exhibition - The Victorian New World Order

Zusatztext 'Young's thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions! discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibition's abstract 'grand narratives' and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired.' - ZAA Informationen zum Autor PAUL YOUNG is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Millennial Dream The Great Family of Man Geography Made Easy Reorienting the World Pax Britannica Postscript: America, Anglobalization and the Great Exhibition Works Cited Index

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Introduction: The Millennial Dream The Great Family of Man Geography Made Easy Reorienting the World Pax Britannica Postscript: America, Anglobalization and the Great Exhibition Works Cited Index

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'Young's thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions, discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibition's abstract 'grand narratives' and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired.' - ZAA

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• Authors: P. Young, Paul Young
• Assisted by: Joseph Bristow (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2009
• EAN: 9780230520752
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52075-2
• No. of pages: 249
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, European History, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, globalization;society;Victorian era