Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915

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Title Page
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Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction: communities real and imagined: world’s fairs and political meanings
1 East meets West: re-presenting the Arab-Islamic world at the nineteenth-century world’s fairs
2 From London to Paris (via Cairo): the world expositions and the making of a modern architect, 1862–1867
3 The Belgian reception of Italy at the 1885 Antwerp World Exhibition: converging artistic, economic, and political strategies on display
4 A Danish spectacle: balancing national interests at the 1888 Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art in Copenhagen
5 A neoclassical translation: the Hôôden at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
6 Paris, 1900: the Musée Centennal du Mobilier et de la Décoration and the formulation of a nineteenth-century national design identity
7 “Our country has never been as popular as it is now!”: Finland at the 1900 Exposition Universelle
8 “A revelation of grace and pride”: cultural memory and international aspiration in early twentieth-century Hungarian design
9 When the local is the global: case studies in early twentieth-century Chinese exposition projects
10 The 1910 Centenary Exhibition in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: manufacturing fine art and cultural diplomacy in South America
Bibliography
Index