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.
| ISBN: | 9780230594319 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2009 |
| Author: | Young, Paul |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook |