Addresses the global, international and imperial characteristics of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. This collection of essays considers how and why the Exhibition was significant both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the world.

Part 1 England, Exhibitions and Empire; Chapter 1 Mission Impossible: Globalization and the Great Exhibition, Paul Young; Chapter 2 The World within the City: The Great Exhibition, Race, Class and Social Reform, Kylie Message, Ewan Johnston; Chapter 3 *A Visiting Fellowship at Yale Center for British Art enabled Louise Purbrick to carry out research on Ireland at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and she would like to thank the Center for its generous support and the staff for their help., Louise Purbrick; Chapter 4 ‘A Valuable and Tolerably Extensive Collection of Native and Other Products’: New Zealand at the Crystal Palace, Ewan Johnston; Chapter 5 ‘Nothing Very New or Very Showy to Exhibit’?: Australia at the Great Exhibition and After, Peter H Hoffenberg; Part 2 Europe, the Orient, and the Spaces in Between; Chapter 6 *Research for this essay was made possible by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship from the United States Department of Education, and grants from the Indiana University Russian and East European Studies Institute and Department of History., David C Fisher; Chapter 7 The Great Exhibition and the German States, John R Davis; Chapter 8 Modern to Ancient: Greece at the Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace, Debbie Challis; Chapter 9 Degrees of Otherness: The Ottoman Empire and China at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Francesca Vanke;