The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Exhibition of Britain, Representing Britain in the Post-War WorldManchester University Press, 2003年6月28日 - 260 頁 This exceptional book is the first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a consciously constructed cultural and educational event, or rather series of events, the Festival provides an opportunity to see a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after the experience of World War II. Primarily an examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951 Festival’s exhibitions and events, Becky E. Conekin considers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of London and the "local", the British Empire and finally its legacy. |
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The background history and historiography | 2 |
The Festivals people and purposes | 26 |
TIME | 43 |
The Festivals representations of the future | 46 |
The Festivals representations of the past | 80 |
PLACE | 113 |
Londonbased representations of the metropole and the regions | 116 |
The role of the local in the Festival | 153 |
The place that was almost absent the British Empire | 183 |
Escape and edification the Battersea Pleasure Gardens | 203 |
CONCLUSION | 225 |
Conclusion the Festival and its legacy | 226 |
Appendices | 235 |
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256 | |
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