Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader

Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair ReaderTogether with the Olympics, worlds fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A Worlds Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on worlds fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate worlds fairs in

Together with the Olympics, worldÕs fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A WorldÕs Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on worldÕs fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate worldÕs fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of worldÕs fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the worldÕs fair itself.