Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86725-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas

This book examines the World’s Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.

It introduces the notion of "cultural world maps" to understand these events as reflections of the global landscape. The fairs played a crucial role in showcasing state and private endeavors, shaping identities, facilitating knowledge exchange, and disseminating objects and ideas. Through innovative approaches, the essays in Latin America and the World’s Fairs, 1867–1939 depart from conventional nation-centric accounts, drawing on insights from cultural history, global and comparative history, as well as exhibition studies.

This volume will be of value to students, scholars, as well as general readers interested in Latin American history and social and cultural history.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruno, Paula

Schuster, Sven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The World’s Fairs and Ibero-American Participation in the Long Nineteenth Century

M. Elizabeth Boone

- Latin America at the World’s Fairs: A Comparative Analysis of National Pavilions, 1867–1939

Sven Schuster

- Republics of Letters: Latin American Libraries, Newspapers, and Leaflets at the European and North American World’s Fairs, 1867–1906

Juan David Murillo Sandoval

- French-Ecuadorian Dialogue at the Paris Fairs, 1878–1900

María José Jarrín

- The Chicago Fair of 1893 as an “Abbreviated World”: Observations from Prominent Figures in the Spanish-Speaking Literary Community

Paula Bruno

- The 1900 Paris World’s Fair: Cosmopolitan Itineraries of Latin American Modernist Writers

Alejandra Uslenghi

- The Seville Ibero-American Exposition in 1929, and the Participation of the Argentine Republic: Images, Ideas, and Women in Action

Georgina Gluzman

- Mexico and Chile at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1937) and New York (1939): Revolution, Popular Front, and Modernity

Sylvia Dummer Scheel

- Geopolitics in Encapsulated Worlds: Spatial Configuration and World Orders in the Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), and New York (1939) World’s Fairs

Carla Lois

Über Autor(innen)

Paula Bruno is a researcher specializing in Latin America. She is co-author of Embajadoras culturales. Mujeres latinoamericanas y vida diplomática, 1860–1960 (Cultural Ambassadresses. Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860–1960) (2021) and author of Martín García Mérou. Vida intelectual y diplomática en las Américas (Martín García Mérou. Intellectual and Diplomatic Life in the Americas) (2018), among other publications.

Sven Schuster is Professor of History at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. He is the author of A vista de pájaro. Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia (A Bird’s Eye View: A New Look at Colombia, 1919–1940) (2024) and "The World’s Fairs as Spaces of Global Knowledge: Latin American Archaeology and Anthropology in the Age of Exhibitions" (Journal of Global History, 2018), among other publications.