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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cardon, Nathan (1982-....)
Titre(s) : A dream of the future [Texte imprimé] : race, empire, and modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs / Nathan Cardon
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-177 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"'A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs' examines how southerners at the end of the nineteenth century worked through the major questions facing a nation undergoing profound change. In an age of empire and industry, southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. At the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta and the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition held in Nashville, they attempted to understand how their region could be industrial and imperial on its own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War veterans presented their dreams of the future. They aimed to prove to the world how rapidly the South had embraced and built, in the words of Henry Grady in 1890, 'from pitiful resources a great and expanding empire.' The Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs were spaces in which southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe. This work connects the South to a global conversation in the late nineteenth century over how to include peoples deemed fit for labor but unfit for citizenship"
Sujet(s) : Expositions -- Aspect social -- États-Unis (sud) -- 19e siècle
Expositions -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis (sud) -- 19e siècle
Relations interethniques -- États-Unis (sud) -- 1800-....
Cotton States Exposition (1895 ; Atlanta, Ga.)
Indice(s) Dewey : 607.34 (23e éd.)
Numéros : ISBN 9780190274726. - ISBN 0190274727 (rel.)
Notice n° :
FRBNF45529812
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A New South vision ; The Negro buildings ; New women, New South ; Exhibiting a New South empire ; Conclusion: the 1907 Jamestown Ter-Centennial: a dream or nightmare of the future?
