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></P><br/><br/><P></P></I><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 competit