dc.contributor.author | GEPPERT, Alexander C.T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-08T15:10:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-08T15:10:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780230221642 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781137358325 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29166 | |
dc.description.abstract | Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world-wide web. Conceptualizing exhibitions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities undertakes a transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed within the European metropolis. Focusing on five such expositions – the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung (1896), the fifth Parisian Exposition Universelle (1900), the Franco-British Exhibition in London (1908), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924/25), and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris (1931) – this award-winning book examines their specific aims and aspirations, evolving forms and execution, and the public debates they engendered. Who shaped these mega-events, how were exposition venues inscribed into the urban fabric, what legacies did they bequeath? Taken as dense textures stretched over time, these expositions undergo both a close hermeneutic reading and broad spatial analysis. Fleeting Cities weaves extensive empirical research with underlying theoretical concerns, investigating their individual meanings in a new form of transnational network analysis. | en |
dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Figures and Plates
-- Abbreviations
-- Acknowledgments
-- 1 Introduction: How to Read an Exposition
-- 2 Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung
-- 3 Paris 1900: The Exposition universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis
-- 4 London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition
-- 5 Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis
-- 6 Vincennes 1931: The Exposition coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity
-- 7 Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium
-- Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition
-- Appendix
-- Bibliography
-- Index | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Palgrave | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5764 | en |
dc.title | Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/9780230281837 | |
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dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004 | en |