{"product_id":"envisioning-the-nation-astrid-bger-9783593387901","title":"Envisioning the Nation: The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid B ger shows in \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, at the same time the fairs played important roles in the growth of nationalism and American exceptionalism, subtly recasting world history from an American point of view and thus laying the groundwork for American dominance in the twentieth century. Drawing on studies of the fairs' architecture, sites, and scientific and cultural displays, as well as contemporaneous literary works that dealt with the fairs, B ger paints a richly contextualized portrait of these influential spectacles of national culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Astrid Ber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3593387905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783593387901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Campus Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Astrid Ber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070270173439,"sku":"9783593387901","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3141fd03-e728-4690-a1f7-fe042b8a60af.jpg?v=1685429366","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/envisioning-the-nation-astrid-bger-9783593387901","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}