| The Inglorious Arts of Peace: Exhibitions in Canadian Society during the Nineteenth Century The exhibition was one of the great nineteenth-century projects for improving the world. Combining the Victorian virtues of communication, co-operation, and competition, it promised to advertise the choice products of civilization to a receptive public. Heaman Elsbeth : E.A. Heaman is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. |