| Thad Logan - 2001 - 310 pages
...imperialist, relation to the foreign. In his speech opening the Great Exhibition, Prince Albert announced that "the products of all quarters of the globe are placed...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes."183 His sense of the world as completely open to British consumers actually... | |
| Edward Ziter - 2003 - 260 pages
...posited a world of impossibly endless availability. As Prince Albert said at the opening ceremony, "the products of all quarters of the globe are placed...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes."56 In this fantasy world of availability, one need only select from a throng... | |
| Nezar AlSayyad - 2004 - 282 pages
...Works of lndustry of All Nations'. Pnnce Albert introduced it to the Bntish public as a setting where 'the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal'." lt was one of many world exhibitions where a newly carved-up globe was displayed through the techniques... | |
| Nezar AlSayyad - 2004 - 296 pages
...Works of Industry of All Nations'. Prince Albert introduced it to the British public as a setting where 'the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal'.28 It was one of many world exhibitions where a newly carved-up globe was displayed through... | |
| Ana Filipa Vrdoljak - 2006 - 29 pages
...FAMILY IN HYDE PARK. Figure 1.2 John Tenniel, 'The Happy Family in Hyde Park', Punch, 19 July 1851. products of all quarters of the globe are placed at...purposes, and the powers of production are entrusted to stimulus of competition and capital.92 The words of the Prince Consort foreshadowed two competing themes... | |
| Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - 2006 - 286 pages
...posited a world of impossibly endless availability. As Prince Albert said at the opening ceremony, "[T]he products of all quarters of the globe are placed...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes" (quoted in Richards, 28). In this fantasy world of availability, one need... | |
| Richard Reeves - 2008 - 232 pages
...lightning . . . The knowledge acquired becomes at once the property of all of the community at large ... no sooner is a discovery or invention made, than it...placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose what is cheapest and best for our purposes . . . Science discovers these laws of power, motion and... | |
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