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Peter Hoffenberg
Nineteenth-century Australian settlers, in an architectural, cultural and intellectual claiming of their new land, filled their landscape with durable monuments -allusions of visual, textual, linguistic kinds to a remembered, imagined…
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Peter H. Hoffenberg
From Gold to Federation describes how huge exhibitions reflected an emerging national identity and promoted the interests of strongly growing colonial economies.
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The Development of a Distinctive Public Science in Nineteenth-Century Australia
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The exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which this book examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the Empire. It…
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Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Addresses the global, international and imperial characteristics of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. This collection of essays considers how and why the Exhibition was significant both for its British…
This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of…
Focusing on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature and the culture of childhood, this collection examines the Victorians’ engagement with the Pacific. Whether…
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in…
Julie Cara Hoffenberg
Live in a Hyundai Tucson was nothing I had ever written on my adventure bucket list. I wanted to swim with dolphins in Tonga and hike through Nepal. But life…
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in…
