From Gold to Federation : Exhibitions and the Australian
Quest for Modernity, 1851 - 1901
AUTHOR: Hoffenberg, Peter H.
PUBLISHING DETAIL: Australian Scholarly Publishing. North Melbourne.
EDITION & DATE: 1st Edition. 2023.
BINDING & PAGES: Trade Paperback . ix, 362 pages .
SIZE & CONDITION: MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White
plates.
CONTENT: Describes how huge exhibitions reflected an emerging national identity
and promoted the interests of strongly growing colonial economies. Starting
with the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, Australians participated keenly as
organisers, exhibitors, judges and visitors at world’s fairs locally and in
France, India, Britain and the United States. In the years between the
discovery of gold in the mid -1850s and the establishment of the Commonwealth
of Australia in 1901 - a period of rapid technological innovation and expansion
in trade - colonial Australians understood the value of these exhibitions in
Melbourne and Sydney and Paris and London. Their quest for modernity was at the
core of the Exhibition experience.
ISBN: 1922952397
WEIGHT: 590 grams
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