Some Suggested Readings and Websites
Jeffrey Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851 (1999).

Elizabeth Ezra, "Colonialism Exposed," in her The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (2000).

Paul Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs (1988).

Hermione Hobhouse, The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition (2002).

Toshio Kusamitsu, "Great Exhibitions before 1851," History Workshop 9, 70-89.

Herman Lebovics, True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945 (1992), especially chap. 3.

Timothy Mitchell, "Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order," in Nicholas Dirks, ed., Colonialism and Culture (1992); another version, 'The World as Exhibition,' appeared in CSSH 31, 217-236.

Panivong Norindr, Phantasmatic Indochina (1996).