World's fairs in a Southern accent Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895-1902 /
The South was no stranger to world & rsquo;s fairs prior to the end of the nineteenth century. Atlanta first hosted a fair in the 1880s, as did New Orleans and Louisville, but after the 1893 World & rsquo;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew comparisons to the great exhibitions of Victoria...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2014]
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| Phiên bản: | First edition. |
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1083154 |
Mục lục:
- Why would Southern urban leaders want to create world's fairs?
- Local issues and private money
- Broader issues : international, federal, state, and local money
- Designing the look of the expositions : architecture, landscape, sculpture
- Opening the expositions
- Commercial and government exhibits
- Noncommercial exhibits
- National unity and Southern profit at the special "days"
- The woman's departments
- The negro departments
- Wrapping up the fairs.