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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: World's Fair
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Language: en
Pages: 281
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-06 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers
Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-23 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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