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Author : Pamela Littky
Release : 2018
Genre : Fairs
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Fair by : Pamela Littky
Download or read book American Fair written by Pamela Littky. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nostalgic glamor of the American fairs attracts visitors of all ages, every year in the USA.
Author : Robert W. Rydell
Release : 2013-06-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fair America by : Robert W. Rydell
Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell. This book was released on 2013-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
Author : Robert W. Rydell
Release : 2013-08-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis All the World's a Fair by : Robert W. Rydell
Download or read book All the World's a Fair written by Robert W. Rydell. This book was released on 2013-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Release : 1981
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 870/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What's Fair? by : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Download or read book What's Fair? written by Jennifer L. Hochschild. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a long questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Hochschild examines the ideals and contemporary practices of Americans on the subject of distributive justice, and discovers neither the rich nor the nonrich support the downward redistribution of wealth.
Author : Reid Badger
Release : 1979
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 483/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Great American Fair by : Reid Badger
Download or read book The Great American Fair written by Reid Badger. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
