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Fair America
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2013-06-04
Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with History categories.
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2000-03-17
Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-17 with History categories.
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
Fair America
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Author : Katharine Roney Crowell
language : en
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Release Date : 2018-02-02
Fair America written by Katharine Roney Crowell and has been published by Sagwan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Fair America Classic Reprint
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Author : Katharine Roney Crowell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-10-14
Fair America Classic Reprint written by Katharine Roney Crowell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-14 with History categories.
Excerpt from Fair America Bears, he said, came down into the water, and laying about them with their paws to the right and the left, captured as many fish as they could devour. To these entirely satisfactory meals the captain ascribed his own safety and that of his men. The bears really could not eat any more. He said, too, that the people of the country caught enormous quantities of the fish in nets (he had with him to confirm his statements specimens of the native nets) or even in great baskets weighted with stones. These baskets they let down in the water and lifted again brimming with fish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
America At The Fair
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Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008
America At The Fair written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the "Blueprint of the American Future" and marked the beginning of the national economy and consumer culture.
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Author : Katharine R Crowell
language : en
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Fair America written by Katharine R Crowell and has been published by Trieste Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with History categories.
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The Fair American
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Author : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Fair American written by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with France categories.
Sally and Andrew voyage to France on the Fair American. They persuade Andrew's father to take home Pierre, sole survivor of a French aristocratic family in the French Revolution. It is Pierre's story of escape to America.
All The World S A Fair
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-08-16
All The World S A Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-16 with History categories.
Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
All The World S A Fair
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1984
All The World S A Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
America The Fair
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Author : Dan Meegan
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
America The Fair written by Dan Meegan and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Political Science categories.
What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Tapping into a pop culture zeitgeist linking Bugs Bunny, Taylor Swift, and John Belushi; through popular science and the human brain; to our political predilections, arguments, and distrusts, Daniel Meegan suggests that fairness and equality are key elements missing in today's society. Having crossed the border to take up residency in Canada, Meegan, an American citizen, has seen first-hand how people enjoy as rights what Americans view as privileges. Fascinated with this tension, he suggests that American liberals are just missing the point. If progressives want to win the vote, they need to change strategy completely and champion government benefits for everyone, not just those of lower income. If everyone has access to inexpensive quality health care, open and extensive parental leave, and free postsecondary education, then everyone will be happier and society will be fair. The Left will also overcome an argument of the Right that successfully, though incongruously, appeals to the middle- and upper-middle classes: that policies that help the economically disadvantaged are inherently bad for others. Making society fair and equal, Meegan argues, would strengthen the moral and political position of the Democratic Party and place it in a position to revive American civic life. Fairness, he writes, should be selfishly enjoyed by everyone.