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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
Tomorrow-Land
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Joseph Tirella
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-23 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—broug
The World's Fair
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Thomas L. Tedrow
Categories: Frontier and pioneer life
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

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While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman
World's Fairs
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Erik Mattie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

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As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as baromete