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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(1):223-225; doi:10.1093/es/khn109
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Lara Kriegel. Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture

Lara Kriegel. Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xviii + 305 pp. ISBN 978-8223-4072-0, $23.95 (paper).

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In this fascinating interdisciplinary study, Lara Kriegel has woven strands of nineteenth-century economic theory, design history, social developments, and cultural events into a richly textured portrayal of how aesthetics were contemplated and manipulated by various audiences. Many publications have examined the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the origins of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Unlike most previous studies, this one focuses on diverse perspectives of design and the marketplace, and particularly how artisans and the working class . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Marilyn Casto

Virginia Tech


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