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11%OFFCristina Della Coletta - World's Fairs Italian-Style - 9781487520564 - V9781487520564
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World's Fairs Italian-Style

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Description for World's Fairs Italian-Style Paperback. Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; GTB; HBJD; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.

According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth.

World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid ... Read more

Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487520564
SKU
V9781487520564
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Ref
99-1

About Cristina Della Coletta
Cristina Della Coletta is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for World's Fairs Italian-Style
‘An exquisitely written study.’
Cynthia De Luca, Quaderni d'italianistica ‘Della Coletta’s work is among the best examples of this sort of interdisciplinary project ... The author’s strength is in her ability to make connections among seemingly disparate areas of inquiry, drawing works together to give the reader an idea of the scope of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries’ “exposition ... Read more

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