All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 by Robert W. Rydell

All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916

Robert W. Rydell

338 pages 1985

2 editions

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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 e...

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