Book ID: CBB001250506

Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (2012)

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Kember, Joe (Editor)
Plunkett, John (Editor)
Sullivan, Jill A. (Editor)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xvi + 283 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Brown, Julie K. (2013) Review of "Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 407). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Kember, Joe; Plunkett, John; Sullivan, Jill A. (2012) Introduction. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Lightman, Bernard (2012) Spectacle in Leicester Square: James Wyld's Great Globe, 1851--61. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 19). unapi

Chapter Plunkett, John; Sullivan, Jill A. (2012) Fetes, Bazaars and Conversaziones: Science, Entertainment and Local Civic Elites. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Pettit, Fiona (2012) The Afterlife of Freak Shows. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 61). unapi

Chapter Hewitt, Martin (2012) Beyond Scientific Spectacle: Image and Word in Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 79). unapi

Chapter Finnegan, Diarmid A. (2012) Daniel William Cahill and the Rhetorical Geography of Science and Religion. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 97). unapi

Chapter Hunt, Verity (2012) Narrativizing “The World's Show”: The Great Exhibition, Panoramic Views and Print Supplements. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 115). unapi

Chapter Radcliffe, Caroline (2012) The Talking Fish: Performance and Delusion in the Victorian Exhibition. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Miller, John (2012) Representation, Race and the Zoological Real in the Great Gorilla Controversy of 1861. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 153). unapi

Chapter Willis, Martin (2012) On Wonder: Situating the Spectacle in Spiritualism and Performance Magic. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 167). unapi

Chapter Qureshi, Sadiah (2012) Meeting the Zulus: Displayed Peoples and the Shows of London, 1853--79. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 183). unapi

Chapter Rogers, Beverley (2012) Unwrapping the Past: Egyptian Mummies on Show. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 199). unapi

Chapter Nieuwland, Ilja (2012) “The Wandering Friend”: Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur Invades Europe, 1902--14. In: Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910 (p. 219). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sullivan, Jill A.
Plunkett, John
Jones, Jamie L.
Limeira-DaSilva, Victor Rafael
Wylie, Caitlin Donahue
Schock, Flemming
Journals
Public Understanding of Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
History of Science
Historical Journal
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh Press
Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press
Northwestern University
Pickering & Chatto
Liverpool University Press
Böhlau
Concepts
Popularization
Science and society
Exhibitions and fairs
Communication of scientific ideas
Natural history
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Happel, Eberhard Werner
Dalton, John
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Great Britain
France
Spain
England
Barcelona (Spain)
Argentina
Institutions
Crystal Palace
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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