World fair /

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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Ford Day at the World's Fair /

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The 1933 Chicago World's Fair : century of progress / by Ganz, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…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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World's fairs in the Cold War : science, technology, and the culture of progress /

Table of Contents: “…Kargon -- 1964 and the state of the city / Katie Uva -- Advancing an optimistic technological narrative in an age of skepticism: General Electric and Walt Disneys Progressland at the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair / Michael Demeter -- The human spirit in an age of machines: the pieta and the computer at the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair / Arthur P. …”
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The 1933 Chicago World's Fair : century of progress / by Ganz, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…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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World's Fairs Italian-Style : the Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915. by Della Coletta, Cristina

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World's fairs on the eve of war : science, technology, and modernity, 1937-1942 / by Kargon, Robert H. (Robert Hugh), Molella, Arthur P., 1944-, Low, Morris, Fiss, Karen

Table of Contents: “…1. Introduction -- World's Fairs, Modernity, and the Demand for Authenticity -- 2. …”
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New York world's fair 1939-40.

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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World's Fair report with Lowell Thomas / by Tobin, Jack

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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Official motion pictures of the New York World's Fair 1939.

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair : the World of Tomorrow. by Cotter, Bill

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair / by Cotter, Bill, 1952-, Young, Bill, 1955-

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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Practicing citizenship : women's rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / by Maddux, Kristy

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The end of the innocence : the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair / by Samuel, Lawrence R.

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War, peace, and propaganda

Subjects: “…New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)…”
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Disposing of modernity : the archaeology of garbage and consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair / by Graff, Rebecca S.

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The San Diego World's Fairs and southwestern memory, 1880-1940 / by Bokovoy, Matthew F., 1969-

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...Edison Guest of Honor, World's Fair, San Francisco, California, 1915 /...

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Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair / by Pfeffer, Miki

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Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair / by Pfeffer, Miki

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Coming of age in Chicago : the 1893 world's fair and the coalescence of American anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…William Henry Holmes, "The World's Fair Congress of Anthropology" (1893) -- Essay 3. …”
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World's fairs in a Southern accent Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895-1902 / by Harvey, Bruce G. (Bruce Gordon), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Why would Southern urban leaders want to create world's fairs? -- Local issues and private money -- Broader issues : international, federal, state, and local money -- Designing the look of the expositions : architecture, landscape, sculpture -- Opening the expositions -- Commercial and government exhibits -- Noncommercial exhibits -- National unity and Southern profit at the special "days" -- The woman's departments -- The negro departments -- Wrapping up the fairs.…”
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Hybrids of modernity : anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition by Harvey, Penelope, 1956-

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"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915. by Boone, M. Elizabeth

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From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise

Table of Contents: “…'China' on Display at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893: Faces of Modernization in the Contact Zone /…”
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Japan after Japan : social and cultural life from the recessionary 1990s to the present

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Transnational American memories

Table of Contents: “…(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago's World's Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory --…”
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A Century of Progress Exposition. Part 1 : around the fair with Burton Holmes.

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Corn palaces and butter queens : a history of crop art and dairy sculpture by Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011

Table of Contents: “…Banquet Tables to Trophy Displays -- Cereal Architecture -- Butter Cows and Butter Ladies -- America's World's Fairs, 1893/1915 -- Boosters, Saracens, and Indians -- Mrs. …”
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Spokane's Expo '74. by Cotter, Bill

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Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity by Garrigan, Shelley E.

Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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Watching the traffic go by : transportation and isolation in urban America by Fotsch, Paul Mason, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The trolley, the automobile, and autonomy -- Townless highways and highwayless towns -- The building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair -- Film noir and the hidden violence of transportation in Los Angeles -- Stories of the MTA: contesting meanings of subway space -- Urban freeway stories: racial politics and the armored automobile.…”
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Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity by Garrigan, Shelley E.

Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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Colonialism and modern architecture in Germany by Osayimwese, Itohan

Table of Contents: “…Heimatschutz and the competition for colonial architecture -- 4. Reform and world's fair thinking at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition -- 5. …”
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The blood of government : race, empire, the United States, & the Philippines by Kramer, Paul A. (Paul Alexander), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Blood compacts : Spanish colonialism and the invention of the Filipino -- From hide to heart : the Philippine-American war as race war -- Dual mandates : collaboration and the racial state -- Tensions of exposition : mixed messages at the St. Louis World's Fair -- Representative men : the politics of nation-building -- Empire and exclusion : ending the Philippine invasion of the United States.…”
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Explosive narratives : terrorism and anarchy in the works of Emile Zola by Febles, Eduardo A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anarchy, Entropy, Naturalism; Chapter 1 Souvarine's Vanishing Act: The Effacement of Anarchy in Germinal; Chapter 2 Anarchy as Narrative Capital: The Emplotment of Terrorism in Paris; Chapter 3 The Anarchic Commune as World's Fair in Travail; Epilogue Zola's Dream; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Power and paradise in Walt Disney's world by Knight, Cher Krause

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The good, the bad, and the ugly: Disney World and academia -- Smart business and simulations: Walt Disney and his world -- Keeping the faith: Disney World as a pilgrimage center -- Swampland: Walt Disney builds paradise -- Fantasy for sale: living large at Disney World -- Fair game: sampling technology and world cultures at Epcot -- Conclusion: Manifest Disney?…”
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Power and paradise in Walt Disney's world by Knight, Cher Krause

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The good, the bad, and the ugly: Disney World and academia -- Smart business and simulations: Walt Disney and his world -- Keeping the faith: Disney World as a pilgrimage center -- Swampland: Walt Disney builds paradise -- Fantasy for sale: living large at Disney World -- Fair game: sampling technology and world cultures at Epcot -- Conclusion: Manifest Disney?…”
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The great brain suck : and other American epiphanies by Halton, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…The great brain suck -- Out of the fifties -- Interlude : go man go -- The hunter-gatherers' world's fair -- Life, literature, and sociology in turn-of-the century Chicago -- Communicating democracy : or shine, perishing republic -- Lem's master's voice -- An American epiphany in Nashville -- The house on Mount Misery -- The art and craft of home -- Europiphanies -- The last days of Lewis Mumford -- Teleparodies -- His one leg.…”
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Chicago's white city of 1893 by Burg, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1: America on the Eve of Celebration; 2: Chicago; 3: The Greatest Fair in History; 4: A World's Fair of the Arts; 5: Exhibits, Pastimes, & Pleasures; 6: The World's Congress Auxiliary; 7: Visions of the Celestial City; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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