Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exhibitions and the New Imperialism 2. 'The Exhibition Wallahs': Commissioners and the Production of Imperial Knowledge 3. Commissioners and the State: Power and Controversy at the Exhibitions 4. Consumers, Producers, and Markets: The Political Economy of Imperial Federation 5. Terrae Nullae? Australia and India at Overseas Exhibitions 6. 'Machines-in-Motion': Technology, Labor, and the Ironies of Industrialism 7. Imperial and National Taxonomies: Entertaining and Policing Exhibition Visitors 8. The Imperial Pilgrims' Progress: Ceremonies, Tourism, and Epic Theater at the Exhibitions Epilogue. Recessional: Imperial Culture and Colonial Nationalism Illustrations Appendix A. Major Australian, English, and Indian Exhibitions, 1851-1914 Appendix B. Prominent Exhibition Commissioners Appendix C. English Government Expenditures for Selected Exhibitions, 1851-1914 Notes Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Peter H. Hoffenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii.