The display of 'otherness' at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and the national identity in Britain

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject History of Europe - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: 1,7, University of Sussex (School of History, Philosophy and Art History), language: English, abstract: On the 1st of May in 1851, the opening of the Great Exhibition marked the beginning of the creation of a corporal British identity which was drafted through dissociation from other for...