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Author Kargon, Robert H. (Robert Hugh), author.

Title World's fairs on the eve of war : science, technology, and modernity, 1937-1942 / Robert H. Kargon (Johns Hopkins University), Karen Fiss (California College of the Arts), Morris Low (University of Queensland), and Arthur P. Molella (Smithsonian Institution).

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm)
Technology language
Science language
text file
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1.Introduction -- World's Fairs, Modernity, and the Demand for Authenticity -- 2.Modernity a la francaise -- 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.
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Subject World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Technology -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Technology -- Political aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Science -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Science -- Political aspects.
Science.
World politics -- History -- 20th century.
World politics.
Exhibitions -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Exhibitions -- Political aspects.
Exhibitions.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Molella, Arthur P., 1944- author.
Low, Morris, author.
Fiss, Karen, author.
Project Muse.
Other Form: Print version: 9780822944447 0822944448 (DLC) 2015025619 (OCoLC)913890363
ISBN 9780822981145
0822981149
9780822944447 hardcover alkaline paper
0822944448