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World's fairs were created to show off the wonders of the industrial revolution. But industrial progress has led to a polluted planet. This book provides an ove
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Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers
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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
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