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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed
bleak, nearly 100 million people visited expositions celebrating
the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national
imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed
their hopes for prosperity and power. In "All the World's a Fair",
Robert W. Rydell described how Victorian-era world's fairs helped
create a blueprint for modern America. Now, with "World of Fairs",
he shows how the interwar exhibitions heralded the arrival of
modern America - a new empire of abundance built on old foundations
of inequality. Rydell demonstrates how the fairs reached their
height of popularity following the crash of 1929 by offering a
vision of recovery from the Depression through the united powers of
science and industry. Beneath the surface, however, lay persistent
themes of imperialism and racism as government officials,
industrial leaders, and intellectuals alike used the fairs to
reinforce their own authority and the established social order.
Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia
Sesquicentennial Exposition, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition,
the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San
Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas
Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and
International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate
International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and
the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.
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