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Globalization and the Great Exhibition : The Victorian New World Order /

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 glob...

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Main Author:	Young, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Cultural Theory. Fiction. History of Britain and Ireland. Literary Theory. Nineteenth-Century Literature. British literature. Culture > Study and teaching. Literature > Philosophy. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Great Britain > History. Electronic books.
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