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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797751903321

Autore

Kargon Robert H (Robert Hugh)

Titolo

World's fairs on the eve of war : science, technology, and modernity, 1937-1942 / / Robert H. Kargon [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8229-8114-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

607/.34

Soggetti

Exhibitions - Political aspects - History - 20th century

World politics - History - 20th century

Science - Political aspects - History - 20th century

Technology - Political aspects - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Science

World War, 1939-1945 - Technology

World War, 1939-1945 - Propaganda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: World's Fairs, Modernity, and the Demand for Authenticity; 2. Modernity à la française: The 1937 Paris Exposition; 3. Fantasies of Consumption at Schaffendes Volk: National Socialism and the Four-Year Plan; 4. Whose Modernity?: Utopia and Commerce at the 1939 New York World's Fair; 5. Modernity on Display: The 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan; 6. EUR: Mussolini's Appian Way to Modernity; 7. Redefining Cultural Conflict: The First Postwar International Exposition; Notes; Bibliography; Index