Author: WeltausstellungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: WeltausstellungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Dedicatory and Opening Ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Dedicatory and Opening Ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Worlds Columbian Expo.Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337596095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dedicatory and Opening Ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Columbian Exposition Dedication Ceremonies Memorial
Author: Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World
Author: J. HartPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403973571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.
Chicago's White City of 1893
Author: David F. BurgPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion. Although the World's Columbian Exposition was the fifteenth world's fair, it was of vastly greater scope than any of its predecessors. Chicago created a veritable new city. It was not only larger than any previous exposition but also more elaborately designed, more precisely laid out, more fully realized, and more prophetic. It was the first exposition truly to solicit the participation of the entire world. In this study of the White City, David F. Burg shows America at a crossroads in its development. It was in the process of moving from a largely agricultural society to a predominately urban and industrial one. The exposition was an index of American values, achievements, and expectation in this era of profound and complex change. The exposition was an achievement of cooperative endeavor and expertise. It demonstrated that both artistic capacity and technology were available to transform, in agreeable combination, burgeoning industrial cities into well-designed centers of business, culture, and community. Burg places his discussion in the context of the United States and Chicago during the early 1890s. Besides dealing with the multifaceted fair itself—its architecture, artworks, music, technological achievements—he discusses the congresses that were held on a variety of subjects, two of the most significant being the Congresses of Women and the World's Parliament of Religions. In the exposition's theme was the potential of fashioning the Kingdom of God on earth in contrast to the chaotic, dirty, industrial cities of the time. Burg finds in the exposition a significant legacy to architecture, city planning, and civic organization. Its most promising aftereffect occurred in the City Beautiful movement; its influence extended also to such ordinary concerns as well-lighted streets, efficient waste disposal, and honest government.
Official Manual of the World's Columbian Commission
Author: United States. World's Columbian CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
HSA Historical Americana Auction Catalog #6006
Author: Marsha DixeyPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599673035
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Chicago
Author: Frederik Byrn KøhlertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108802656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Chicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation's goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world's first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city's contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.