Snippets from 'Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World'

Have just had fun reading the précis and conclusion of 'Seize the Day' (note above) and in particular enjoyed Robert Rydell's piece on the future of World Expositions scholarship.

Two further publications caught my eye, no, three:

1. Hoffenberg, Peter (2001). "An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War", published by Berkeley, University of California Press.

2. Lockyer, Angus (2000). "Japan at the Exhibition, 1867-1970", Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University.

3. Harvey, Penelope (1996). "Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropolgy, the Nation State, and the Universal Exhibition", London: Routledge.

The first two titles are self-explanatory, but the third talks about Seville's Exposition of 1992.

I'm going to spend the Christmas break reading through 'Seize the Day' and hopefully posting snippets of interesting quotes, as well as work out how to get my hands on the above publications.... Amazon???