World for a Shilling by Michael Leapman

World for a Shilling

Michael Leapman

308 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
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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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