Author: Charles LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser, by Charles Lowe,...
Author: Charles LoweFour National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser
Author: Charles LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser
Author: Charles LowePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337457846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser
Author: Charles LoweThe Westminster Review
Author: Catalogue
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Popular Frontier
Author: Frank ChristiansonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806159936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West. As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.
The Asclepiad. v. 9, 1892
Author: Imagining the Arctic
Author: Huw Lewis-JonesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786722461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
Author: G. E. ManwaringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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