The 1933 Chicago World's Fair : A Century of Progress /

"Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Fair organizers,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ganz, Cheryl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Weltausstellung Chicago > (1933-1934)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sally Rand and the midway
  • Chicago boosters set the stage
  • A new vision for a world's fair
  • The vision on display
  • Women's spaces at the fair
  • African Americans and the Du Sable legacy
  • Ethnic identity and nationalistic representations of progress
  • Aviation as a nationalism, and progress.

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