All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916

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University of Chicago Press, 1987 M10 15 - 328 páginas
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 looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
 

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Introduction
1
1 The Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia 1876 The Exposition as a Moral Influence
9
2 The Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?
38
3 The New Orleans Atlanta and Nashville Expositions New Markets New Negroes and a New South
72
Concomitant to Empire
105
5 The PanAmerican Exposition Buffalo Pax 1901
126
6 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Saint Louis 1904 The Coronation of Civilization
154
7 The Expositions in Portland and Seattle To Celebrate the Past and to Exploit the Future
184
8 The Expositions in San Francisco and San Diego Toward the World of Tomorrow
208
Conclusion
234
Notes
239
Bibliography
293
Index
317
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Robert W. Rydell is professor of history at Montana State University-Bozeman. He is the author of six books, including All the World's a Fair and World of Fairs, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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