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).
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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