TY - BOOK ID - 77898140 TI - An empire on display PY - 2001 SN - 0520922964 1597345946 9780520922969 0585394695 9780585394695 9780520218918 0520218914 9781597345941 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Exhibitions KW - Exhibits KW - Expos (Exhibitions) KW - Expositions KW - Industrial arts KW - Industrial exhibitions KW - International exhibitions KW - Technology KW - World's fairs KW - Sales promotion KW - Fairs KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898140 AB - The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration. ER -