The Great Exhibition, 1851 : a sourcebook / edited by Jonathon Shears.

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This is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
Other Authors: Shears, Jonathon (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
Subjects:
Great Exhibition > (1851 : > London, England) > Sources.
Great Exhibition.
Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Origins and organisation
  • 2. Display
  • 3. Nation, empire and ethnicity
  • 4. Gender
  • 5. Class
  • 6. Afterlives.