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Sarah J. Moore Empire on Display (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Publication Name
- Empire on Display
- Title
- Empire on Display
- Subtitle
- San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
- EAN
- 9780806143484
- ISBN
- 9780806143484
- Release Date
- 05/30/2013
- Release Year
- 2013
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Empire on Display : San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Art, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Latin America / Central America, Civil / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
0806143487
ISBN-13
9780806143484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160028930
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empire on Display : San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Latin America / Central America, Civil / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Art, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tc781.B1m66 2013
Reviews
"Pulls together the most important strands of cultural politics at a key turning point in American history in ways that no other book quite accomplishes and no reader will ever forget."— T. J. Boisseau, coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs, Empire on Display shows that public events like the 1915 international exposition in San Francisco put on display not just the latest material products of modern technology and industry but also their conceptual underpinnings—meanings implicit and explicit that shaped the staged events and projected themselves into the public realm. Impressively researched and lucidly argued, Empire on Display helps us see the high importance of public display in establishing the terms of American hegemony in the opening years of the twentieth century."— Alan Trachtenberg author of Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880--1930, " Empire on Display shows that public events like the 1915 international exposition in San Francisco put on display not just the latest material products of modern technology and industry but also their conceptual underpinnings--meanings implicit and explicit that shaped the staged events and projected themselves into the public realm. Impressively researched and lucidly argued, Empire on Display helps us see the high importance of public display in establishing the terms of American hegemony in the opening years of the twentieth century."-- Alan Trachtenberg author of Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880¿, " Empire on Display shows that public events like the 1915 international exposition in San Francisco put on display not just the latest material products of modern technology and industry but also their conceptual underpinnings-meanings implicit and explicit that shaped the staged events and projected themselves into the public realm. Impressively researched and lucidly argued, Empire on Display helps us see the high importance of public display in establishing the terms of American hegemony in the opening years of the twentieth century."- Alan Trachtenberg author of Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 18801930, "Pulls together the most important strands of cultural politics at a key turning point in American history in ways that no other book quite accomplishes and no reader will ever forget."- T. J. Boisseau, coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs, " Empire on Display shows that public events like the 1915 international exposition in San Francisco put on display not just the latest material products of modern technology and industry but also their conceptual underpinnings--meanings implicit and explicit that shaped the staged events and projected themselves into the public realm. Impressively researched and lucidly argued, Empire on Display helps us see the high importance of public display in establishing the terms of American hegemony in the opening years of the twentieth century."-- Alan Trachtenberg author of Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930, "Pulls together the most important strands of cultural politics at a key turning point in American history in ways that no other book quite accomplishes and no reader will ever forget."-- T. J. Boisseau, coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-037471
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Trade
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