Lectures On The Results Of The Great Exhibition Of 1851
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The Great Exhibition of 1851
Author | : Louise Purbrick |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780719055928 |
These essays expose how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains readings of the historical record of the exhibition, exploring the use of industrial knowledge & the contested definitions of nation & colony.
The Great Exhibition Vol 4
Author | : Geoffrey Cantor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2021-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000561690 |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.
Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Author | : |
Publisher | : London, D. Bogue |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Exhibitions |
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The Literate Eye
Author | : Rachel Teukolsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0195381378 |
Rather than focusing on German philosophy or the French avant-gardes, as many books on the history of aesthetics do, Teukolsky takes up British responses to modern art controversies, thus providing a unique view on the development of artistic forms and art history. She considers the canonical writing of authors like John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde alongside texts belonging to the rich field of Victorian print culture--gallery reviews, scientific treatises, satirical cartoons, advertisements, and early photography monographs among them. Spanning the years 1840 to 1910, her argument also adds substance to our understanding of the transition from Victorianism to modernism, a period of especially lively exchange between artists and intellectuals, here narrated with careful attention given to the historical particularities and real events that stamped their imprint on such interactions.
Globalization and the Great Exhibition
Author | : Paul Young |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2009-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023059431X |
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.
Discovering Water
Author | : David Philip Miller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351943758 |
The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the larger issues of the so-called chemical revolution of the late eighteenth century. A case can be made for James Watt or Henry Cavendish or Antoine Lavoisier as having priority in the discovery depending upon precisely what the discovery is taken to consist of, however, neither the protagonists themselves in the 1780s nor modern historians qualify as those most fervently interested in the affair. In fact, the controversy attracted most attention in early Victorian Britain some fifty to seventy years after the actual work of Watt, Cavendish and Lavoisier. The central historical question to which the book addresses itself is why the priority claims of long dead natural philosophers so preoccupied a wide range of people in the later period. The answer to the question lies in understanding the enormous symbolic importance of James Watt and Henry Cavendish in nineteenth-century science and society. More than credit for a particular discovery was at stake here. When we examine the various agenda of the participants in the Victorian phase of the water controversy we find it driven by filial loyalty and nationalism but also, most importantly, by ideological struggles about the nature of science and its relation to technological invention and innovation in British society. At a more general, theoretical, level, this study also provides important insights into conceptions of the nature of discovery as they are debated by modern historians, philosophers and sociologists of science.
The Victorian Temper
Author | : Jerome Hamilton Buckley |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1981-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521284486 |
J.C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England
Author | : W.O. Henderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136613595 |
This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of 1,687,000 in 1817, faraway trade ports, and until 1848 no real central government with the administrative structure to support expansion of manufacturers. However, the people were hardworking, thrifty and high standards of workmanship; and had good relations with France and Germany, which saw the watchmakers, silkweavers and chocolate crafters start to thrive. Johann Conrad Fischer was typical of the entrepreneurs who laid the foundations of Switzerland's prosperity with his steelworks.