Globalization and the Great Exhibition e-bog
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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.
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
28 januar 2009
Genrer
1D
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780230594319
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.