Partners in conflict : profits, prizes and politics at the 1851 Great Exhibition

This thesis will argue that the British organisers1 of the 1851 Great Exhibition did not invent the international exhibition format from the outset. The Exhibition did not open, as claimed in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, having ‘sprung, like Minerva from the brain of Jove “full armed,” int...

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Main Author: Davies, Michael John
Published: Birkbeck (University of London) 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.725634