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Fair America
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Robert W. Rydell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-04 - Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures
All the World's a Fair
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Robert W. Rydell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
Tomorrow-Land
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Joseph Tirella
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-23 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—broug
Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Joseph M. Di Cola
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New Wo
American Fair
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Pamela Littky
Categories: Fairs
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

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The nostalgic glamor of the American fairs attracts visitors of all ages, every year in the USA.