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Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian
popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians
for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything
was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania's
impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing,
photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world
of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature
discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while
exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes,
as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was
central to the Pacific's effects, as youthful encounters at
exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions
and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the
Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their
engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and
Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been
well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have
remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the
Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion
of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition is the
first book to situate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in a
truly global context. Addressing national, imperial, and
international themes, this collection of essays considers the
significance of the Exhibition both for its British hosts and their
relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around
the globe. How did the Exhibition connect London, England,
important British colonies, and significant participating
nation-states including Russia, Greece, Germany and the Ottoman
Empire? How might we think about the exhibits, visitors and
organizers in light of what the Exhibition suggested about
Britain's place in the global community? Contributors from various
academic disciplines answer these and other questions by focusing
on the many exhibits, publications, visitors and organizers in
Britain and elsewhere. The essays expand our understanding of the
meanings, roles and legacies of the Great Exhibition for British
society and the wider world, as well as the ways that this pivotal
event shaped Britain's and other participating nations' conceptions
of and locations within the wider nineteenth-century world.
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian
popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians
for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything
was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania's
impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing,
photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world
of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature
discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while
exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes,
as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was
central to the Pacific's effects, as youthful encounters at
exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions
and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the
Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their
engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and
Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been
well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have
remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the
Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion
of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
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 British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught at the
Bombay School of Art and later was appointed principal of the new
Mayo School of Art (today Pakistan's National College of Art and
Design) as well as curator of its museum in Lahore. Over several
years, Kipling toured the northern provinces of India, documenting
the processes of local craftsmen, a cultural preservation project
that provides a unique record of 19th-century Indian craft customs.
This is the first book to explore the full spectrum of artistic,
pedagogical, and archival achievements of this fascinating man of
letters, demonstrating the sincerity of his work as an artist,
teacher, administrator, and activist. Published in association with
Bard Graduate Center Exhibition Schedule: Victoria and Albert
Museum, London (01/14/17-04/02/17) Bard Graduate Center, New York
(09/15/17-01/07/18)
When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics’
School of Arts in 1833, he introduced a bold directive: for
Australia to advance on the scale of nations, it needed to develop
a science of its own. Prominent scientists in the colonies of New
South Wales and Victoria answered this call by participating in
popular exhibitions far and near, from London’s Crystal Place in
1851 to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane during the final
decades of the nineteenth century. A Science of Our Own explores
the influential work of local botanists, chemists, and
geologists—William B. Clarke, Joseph Bosisto, Robert Brough
Smyth, and Ferdinand Mueller—who contributed to shaping a
distinctive public science in Australia during the nineteenth
century. It extends beyond the political underpinnings of the
development of public science to consider the rich social and
cultural context at its core. For the Australian colonies, as Peter
H. Hoffenberg argues, these exhibitions not only offered a path to
progress by promoting both the knowledge and authority of local
scientists and public policies; they also ultimately redefined the
relationship between science and society by representing and
appealing to the growing popularity of science at home and abroad.
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 the
poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity,
Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious
perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism,
liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural
law, which might be claimed by both. The basic questions addressed
by each of these traditions are linked to several overarching
themes: what poverty is, the particular vulnerabilities of
high-risk groups, responsibility for the occurrence of poverty,
preferred remedies, how responsibility for its alleviation is
distributed, and priorities in the delivery of assistance. This
volume features an introduction to the types, scope, and causes of
poverty in the modern world and concludes with Michael Walzer's
broadly conceived commentary, which provides a direct comparison of
the presented views and makes suggestions for further study and
policy.
The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the
lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic,
cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the
British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England,
Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the
Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in
the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term
consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways
in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as
celebration.
Hoffenberg shows how exhibitions shaped culture and society within
and across borders in the transnational working of the British
Empire. The exhibitions were central to establishing and developing
a participatory imperial world, and each polity in that world
provided distinctive information, visitors, and exhibits. Among the
displays were commercial goods, working machines, and ethnographic
scenes. Exhibits were intended to promote external commonwealth and
internal nationalism. The imperial overlay did not erase
significant differences but explained and used them in economic and
cultural terms.
The exhibitions in cities such as London, Sydney, and Calcutta were
living and active public inventories of the Empire and its national
political communities. The process of building and consuming such
inventories persists today in the cultural bureaucracies, museums,
and festivals of modern nation-states, the appeal to tradition and
social order, and the actions of transnational bodies.
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 the
poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity,
Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious
perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism,
liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural
law, which might be claimed by both. The basic questions addressed
by each of these traditions are linked to several overarching
themes: what poverty is, the particular vulnerabilities of
high-risk groups, responsibility for the occurrence of poverty,
preferred remedies, how responsibility for its alleviation is
distributed, and priorities in the delivery of assistance. This
volume features an introduction to the types, scope, and causes of
poverty in the modern world and concludes with Michael Walzer's
broadly conceived commentary, which provides a direct comparison of
the presented views and makes suggestions for further study and
policy.
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