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World's Fairs and the End of Progress
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Pages: 0
Authors: Alfred Heller
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World's fairs were created to show off the wonders of the industrial revolution. But industrial progress has led to a polluted planet. This book provides an ove
World of Fairs
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Robert W. Rydell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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 pro
All the World's a Fair
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Robert W. Rydell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He
Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: John E. Findling
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: McFarland

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This encyclopedia contains individual histories of each of the nearly 100 World's Fairs and expositions held in more than 20 countries since 1851. This revised
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Rika Devos
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-09 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions t