Robert W. Rydell

Fair America

World's Fairs in the United States

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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to exotic pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as encyclopedias of civilization, the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions.Setting more than 30 world's fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideal… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Findling, John E. / Pelle, Kimberly

ISBN: 978-1-58834-342-0
EAN: 9781588343420
Produktnummer: 15734262
Verlag: Smithsonian
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 9'262 KB
Abbildungen: 60 B&W PHOTOS

Über den Autor

Robert W. Rydell is a professor of history at Montana State University-and the author of All the World's a Fair (1984) and World of Fairs (1983).John E. Findling is a professor of history at Indiana University Southeast and the author of Chicago's Great World's Fairs (1994).Kimberly D. Pelle is an admissions counselor at Indiana University Southeast and coeditor, with John E. Findling, of Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions (1990).