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> </I></i></p><br><br><p></p><br><br><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>