The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation by Michael Leapman, Michael Leapman

The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation

Michael Leapman, Michael Leapman

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Conceived as a showcase for Britain's burgeoning manufacturing industries and the exotic products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was Britain's first truly national spectacle. This text examines the story of how the exhib...

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