In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of pro
In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. I
Includes arguments for having California represented at the upcoming Paris Universal Exposition of 1878, criticisms of political misrule in California and San F
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progr
This controversial 234 page book, with over 80 photographs inspects the history of the World Expositions between 1851-1915. Beautiful 700-acre sites that resemb