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Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
Title
Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe / Alexander C.T. Geppert.
ISBN
9780230221642 (hardback)
0230221645 (hardback)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
xvii, 398 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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