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Author Graff, Rebecca S., author.

Title Disposing of modernity : the archaeology of garbage and consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair / Rebecca S. Graff.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 203 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Vanishing Fair and the Enduring Home -- Situating the Sites in Chicago: Elite Networks and Archaeology -- Temporalities as Ideologies -- Domesticity and Social Life -- Consumption and Conspicuous Disposal -- Conclusion: At the Center of the World, Again.
Summary "Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, this book explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
World's Columbian Exposition.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
Exhibitions.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Graff, Rebecca S.. Disposing of modernity Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020] 9780813066493 (DLC) 2020001903
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