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Category : World's Fair of 1982
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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1982 World's Fair Vacation Guide
Official Vacation Guide to the 1982 World's Fair
The 1982 World's Fair
Official Guide Book, the 1982 World's Fair
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Category : World's Fair of 1982
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
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Category : World's Fair of 1982
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The 1982 World's Fair Official Guidebook
The 1982 World's Fair
Author: World's Fair of 1982 (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Visitor's Guide to World's Fair and Chicago
Author: John Morris Company
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Fair America
Author: Robert W. Rydell
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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.
Guide
Author: New York. World's Fair
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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