| World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities: International Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851-1958 Contributor(s): Leerssen, Joep, Storm, Eric |
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ISBN: 9004498826 ISBN-13: 9789004498822 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $134.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Physical Information: 428 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This volume examines the role of broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 to 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community. World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a "brand", while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in "banal" form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism Contributors are: Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm, Florian Gro , Anthony Swift, Cosmin Minea, Claire Hendren, Taka Oshikiri, Robert W. Rydell, Sven Schuster, Miriam Oesterreich, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Christina Romlid, Jonathan Voges, and Anastasia Remes. |