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050 00 $aT395$b.G36 2010
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100 1 $aGeppert, Alexander C. T.,$d1970-
245 10 $aFleeting cities :$bimperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe /$cAlexander C.T. Geppert.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
300 $axvii, 398 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Read an Exposition -- Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung -- Paris 1900: The Exposition universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis -- London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition -- Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis -- Vincennes 1931: The Exposition coloniale as a Transitory Center of Imperial Civilization -- Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium -- Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aExhibitions$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aExhibitions$xSocial aspects$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern.
651 0 $aEurope$xCivilization$y20th century.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century.
611 20 $aBerliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung$d(1896)
611 20 $aExposition universelle$d(1900 :$cParis, France)
611 20 $aFranco-British Exhibition$d(1908 :$cLondon, England)
611 20 $aBritish Empire Exhibition$d(1924-1925 :$cWembley, London, England)
611 20 $aExposition coloniale internationale de Paris$d(1931)
852 00 $boff,ave$hT395$i.G36 2010