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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812508903321

Autore

Ganz Cheryl

Titolo

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair : century of progress / / Cheryl R. Ganz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-252-09550-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

907.4/77311

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 (pages [159]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.