Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (75) H.J. Res. 234, (75) H.J. Res. 304.
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Author: Bill Cotter
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa
Author: Marco Zoppi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040157602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism. These events have highlighted an urgent need to debate the management and preservation of Europe and Africa’s shared heritage. Drawing on a range of varied, trans-continental case studies, this book considers the key question of whether such monuments should be removed as forms of unacceptable celebration of an evil past, or preserved precisely because of what they recount about that past of oppression and domination. The book encourages readers to consider how diverse and pervasive the notions of shared heritage and common past are, encompassing discussions of statues, exhibitions, graffiti, tapestries, and commemorations. Providing a timely analysis of the developing cultural relations between Africa and Europe, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of global history, heritage studies, memory studies, and international relations.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040157602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism. These events have highlighted an urgent need to debate the management and preservation of Europe and Africa’s shared heritage. Drawing on a range of varied, trans-continental case studies, this book considers the key question of whether such monuments should be removed as forms of unacceptable celebration of an evil past, or preserved precisely because of what they recount about that past of oppression and domination. The book encourages readers to consider how diverse and pervasive the notions of shared heritage and common past are, encompassing discussions of statues, exhibitions, graffiti, tapestries, and commemorations. Providing a timely analysis of the developing cultural relations between Africa and Europe, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of global history, heritage studies, memory studies, and international relations.
The Judge
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
New York World's Fair, 1939
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (75) H.J. Res. 234, (75) H.J. Res. 304.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (75) H.J. Res. 234, (75) H.J. Res. 304.
Report
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader
Author: Celia Pearce
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312115874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312115874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
Railway International Passenger and Ticket Agents Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Author: New York Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Folklife Center News
Author:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description