Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.