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Empire on Display - San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
Tekijä: Sarah J. Moore
Kustantaja: University of Oklahoma Press (2013)
Saatavuus: Noin 12-15 arkipäivää
EUR   35,30
John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity
Tekijä: Sarah J Moore
Kustantaja: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press (2003)
Saatavuus: Ei tiedossa
EUR   124,90
John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity
Tekijä: Sarah J. Moore
Kustantaja: Associated University Presses (2003)
Saatavuus: Ei tiedossa
EUR   102,70
The Transformation of an Indian Labor Market - The Case of Pune
Tekijä: Richard D. Lambert; Ralph B. Ginsberg; Sarah J. Moore
Kustantaja: John Benjamins Publishing Co (1986)
Saatavuus: Ei tiedossa
EUR   170,60
    
Empire on Display - San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
35,30 €
University of Oklahoma Press
Sivumäärä: 256 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2013, 30.05.2013 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event's expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

The exposition displayed evidence - visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideological - of America's imperial ambitions and accomplishments. Representations of the Panama Canal play a central role in Moore's argument, much as they did at the fair itself. Embodying a manly empire of global dimensions, the canal was depicted in statues and a gigantic working replica, as well as on commemorative stamps, maps, murals, postcards, medals, and advertisements. Just as San Francisco's rebuilding symbolized America's will to overcome the forces of nature, the Panama Canal represented the triumph of U.S. technology and sheer determination to realize the centuries-old dream of opening a passage between the seas.

Extensively illustrated, Moore's book vividly recalls many other features of the fair, including a seventy-five-foot-tall Uncle Sam. American railroads, in their heyday in 1915, contributed a five-acre scale model of Yellowstone, complete with miniature geysers that erupted at regular intervals. A mini-Grand Canyon featured a village where some twenty Pueblo Indians lived throughout the fair.

Moore interprets these visual and cultural artifacts as layered narratives of progress, civilization, social Darwinism, and manliness. Much as the globe had ostensibly shrunk with the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition compressed the world and represented it in miniature to celebrate a reinvigorated, imperial, masculine, and technologically advanced nation. As San Francisco bids to host another world's fair, in 2020, Moore's rich analytic approach gives readers much to ponder about symbolism, American identity, and contemporary parallels to the past.

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