World's fairs on the eve of war : science technology & modernity, 1937-1942 / Robert H. Kargon, Johns Hopkins Univ., Karen Fiss, Calif. College of the Arts, Morris Low, Univ. of Queensland, Arthur P. Molella, Smithsonian Institution
Introduction: World's Fairs, modernity, and the demand for authenticity -- Modernity à la française : the 1937 Paris Exposition -- Fantasies of consumption at Schaffendes Volk : National Socialism and the four-year plan -- Whose modernity? : utopia and commerce at the 1939 New York World's Fair -- Modernity on display : the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan -- EUR : Mussolini's Appian way to modernity -- Redefining cultural conflict : the first postwar international exposition
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Exhibitions--Political aspects--History Search this