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Designing the Centennial

A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia

Designing the Centennial( )
Author: Giberti, Bruno
Series title:Material Worlds Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8131-9213-0
Publication Date:Oct 2008
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity--the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Business & Economics / Marketing / General
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 Inches
Book Weight:1 Pounds



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