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Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Alexander C. T. Geppert
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Description for Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Paperback. "Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900"-- Num Pages: 406 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 623.
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349307210
SKU
V9781349307210
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99-15
About Alexander C. T. Geppert
ALEXANDER C. T. GEPPERT is Emmy Noether Research Group Director at Freie Universitat Berlin. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and has held fellowships in Berkeley, Paris, London, Vienna, Essen and at Harvard University. At present he is writing a book on the cultural history of outer space in the European imagination of the ... Read more
Reviews for Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
This book is a stunning achievement. ... The whole volume is full of insights, as the reader is taught how to read an exposition, as existing chronologies (not least the belief that exhibitions declined in popularity) are challenged and overturned, and as Geppert offers new ways of conceptualising the whole process, uncovering transnational links and exploring these places as sites ... Read more