Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs

David Raizman is Distinguished University Professor of Art and Art History in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Ethan Robey is Assistant Professor of the History of Decorative Arts and Design at Parsons School of Design, and Associate Director of the MA Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Study run by Parsons and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Introduction Communities Real and Imagined: World’s Fairs and Political Meanings
David Raizman and Ethan Robey



1. East Meets West: Re-Presenting the Islamic World at the Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs
Debra Hanson



2. From London to Paris (via Cairo): The World Expositions and the Making of a Modern Architect, 1862-1867
Christian A. Hedrick



3. The Belgian Reception of Italy at the 1885 Antwerp World Exhibition: Converging Artistic, Economic, and Political Strategies on Display
Daniela N. Prina



4. A Danish Spectacle: Balancing National Interests at the 1888 Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture and Art in Copenhagen
Jørn Guldberg



5. A Neoclassical Translation: The Hôôden at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
Hannah L. Sigur



6. Paris, 1900: The Musée Centennal du Mobilier et de la Décoration and the Formulation of a Nineteenth-Century National Design Identity
Anca I. Lasc



7. "Our Country Has Never Been as Popular as It Is Now!": Finland at the 1900 Exposition Universelle
Bart Pushaw



8. "A Revelation of Grace and Pride": Cultural Memory and International Aspiration in Early Twentieth-Century Hungarian Design
Rebecca Houze



9. When the Local is the Global: Case Studies in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Exposition Projects
Susan R. Fernsebner



10. The 1910 Centenary Exhibition in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Manufacturing Fine Art and Cultural Diplomacy in South America
M. Elizabeth Boone



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