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Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris /

The 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The Exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured go...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morton, P. A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Le Tour du Monde en un Jour
  • Ch. 2. Collecting the Colonies
  • Ch. 3. Challenging the Exposition: The Anticolonial Opposition
  • Ch. 4. A Taxonomy of Marginality: The Site
  • Ch. 5. The Civilizing Mission of Architecture
  • Ch. 6. An Architectural Physiognomy of the Colonies
  • Ch. 7. National or Colonial: The Musee des Colonies.