Globalization and the Great Exhibition E-Book

Paul Young

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Beschreibung

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.