From Gold to Federation Exhibitions and Australian Quest for Modernity 1851-1901

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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