The Great Exhibition of 1851

The Great Exhibition of 1851
Author: Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300080070

"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.