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Fleeting Cities Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Fleeting Cities Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Description

Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

Keywords

HistoryEuropeModernSocial HistoryGreat Britain

2010Book

Author(s)Alexander C. T. Geppert

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230221642

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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