Select secondary general literature

Alexander,Edward P., Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Function of Museums, Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1979

Anderson,Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1993

Appadurai,A. (ed.), The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective, New York: Cambridge U.P., 1986

Arató,Endre, A magyarországi nemzetiségek nemzeti ideológiája[The national ideology of the nationalities in Hungary], Budapest, 1983

Auerbach, Jeffrey A., TheGreat Exhibition of 1851. A Nation at Display, New Haven and London: Yale U. P., 1999

Bennett,Tony, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics, London: Routledge, 1995

Greenhalgh,Paul, Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions, and World?s Fairs, 1851-1939, Manchester: Manchester U.P., 1988

Kaplan,Flora E. S. (ed.), Museums and the Making of ?Ourselves?: The Roles of Objects in National Identity, London: Leicester U. P., 1994

Kusamitsu,Toshio, "Great Exhibitions before 1851", History Workshop 9 (1980): 70-89

Lutchmansingh,Larry D., "Commodity Exhibitionism at the London Great Exhibition of 1851", Annals of Scholarship 7 (1990): 203-216

Walton,Whitney, Franceat the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992