World's Fairs Italian-Style
Cristina Della Coletta
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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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