World of Fairs The Century-Of-Progress Expositions

Name: World of Fairs The Century-Of-Progress Expositions
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ISBN: 9780226732374

ISBN-10: 0226732371

ISBN-13: 9780226732374

Edition: 1993

Authors: Robert W. Rydell

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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history--begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair--this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few--particularly artists, architects, and scientists--were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America--a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



An Exhibitionary Culture



Forerunners of the Century-of-Progress Expositions



"Fitter Families for Future Firesides": Eugenics Exhibitions between the Wars



The Century-of-Progress Expositions



Coloniale Moderne



The Empire of Science



Future Perfect



African Americans in the World of Tomorrow



The New Day Dawns: The American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair Conclusion An Essay on Archival Sources


Notes


Index