Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs

<p><em>Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity Diversity and Exchange 1851–1915</em> introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a<i> </i>wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings<i> </i>of design during a period of rapid industrialization developing nationalism imperialism<i> </i>expanding trade and the emergence of a consumer society. Its chapters written by<i> </i>both established and emerging scholars are global in scope and demonstrate specific<i> </i>networks of communication and exchange among designers manufacturers markets<i> </i>and nations on the modern world stage from the second half of the nineteenth century<i> </i>into the beginning of the twentieth.<i> </i></p><p></p><p>Within the overarching theme of nationalism and internationalism as revealed at<i> </i>world’s fairs the book’s essays will engage a more complex understanding of ideas<i> </i>of competition and community in an age of emergent industrial capitalism and will<i> </i>investigate the nuances contradictions and marginalized voices that lie beneath the<i> </i>surface of unity progress and global expansion.</p>