Author: C. Dean (of Chicago.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons
Author: C. Dean (of Chicago.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons
Author: C. Dean (of Chicago.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
History of the World's Fair
Author: Benjamin Cummings TrumanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Great Enterprise
Author: Henry EmPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822353725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics in that it served a pedagogical function for Japanese and Western imperialisms, as well as for Korean nationalism. Sovereignty thus functioned as police power and political power in shaping Korea's modernity, including anticolonial and postcolonial movements toward a radically democratic politics. Surveying historical works written over the course of the twentieth century, Em elucidates the influence of Christian missionaries, as well as the role that Japan's colonial policy played in determining the narrative framework for defining Korea's national past. Em goes on to analyze postcolonial works in which South Korean historians promoted national narratives appropriate for South Korea's place in the U.S.-led Cold War system. Throughout, Em highlights equal sovereignty's creative and productive potential to generate oppositional subjectivities and vital political alternatives.
The Death of Things
Author: Sarah WassermanPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452964157
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century “Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and these objects played crucial roles in some of that century’s greatest works of literature. In The Death of Things, author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Representing the experience of perpetual change and loss, ephemera was central to great works by major novelists like Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, and Marilynne Robinson. Following the lives and deaths of objects, Wasserman imagines new uses of urban space, new forms of visibility for marginalized groups, and new conceptions of the marginal itself. She also inquires into present-day conundrums: our fascination with the durable, our concerns with the digital, and our curiosity about what new fictional narratives have to say about deletion and preservation. The Death of Things offers readers fascinating, original angles on how objects shape our world. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, Wasserman delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten.
Paint, Oil and Drug Review
Author: Martin's World's Fair Album-atlas and Family Souvenir
Author: J. F. MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons
Author: C. DeanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330326244
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Excerpt from The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons To present a book of this kind, with character sketches of living men who are prominent factors in great public enterprises, might have been criticized fifty years ago as being somewhat in bad taste. But opinions like fashions are continually changing. The popular demand of today is to know the methods of successful men; and, in order to know them character must be investigated. "As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company one of the first questions which all wish to have answered is, How does that man get his living?" And if he has succeeded in adding something to the general wealth he becomes at once a sort of hero in the estimation of the American citizen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Final Report of the California World's Fair Commission
Author: California World's Fair CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Voices & Visions
Author: Bernard F. RodgersPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761821687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range ...