Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: The Victorian New World Order

Young, Paul

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-01-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230520752

DOI: 10.1057/9780230594319

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249