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imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
"Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900"--
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Read an Exposition -- Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung -- Paris 1900: The Exposition universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis -- London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition -- Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis -- Vincennes 1931: The Exposition coloniale as a Transitory Center of Imperial Civilization -- Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium -- Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France)
Franco-British Exhibition (1908 : London, England)
British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925 : Wembley, London, England)
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931)