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

Paula Bruno, Sven Schuster

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040396735
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The World’s Fairs as Cultural World Maps
• 1 The World’s Fairs and Ibero-American Participation in the Long Nineteenth Century
• 2 Latin America at the World’s Fairs: A Comparative Analysis of National Pavilions, 1867–1939
• 3 Republics of Letters: Latin American Libraries, Newspapers, and Leaflets at the European and North American World’s Fairs, 1867–1906
• 4 French-Ecuadorian Dialogue at the Paris Fairs, 1878–1900
• 5 The Chicago Fair of 1893 as an “Abbreviated World”: Observations from Prominent Figures in the Spanish-Speaking Literary Community
• 6 The 1900 Paris World’s Fair: Cosmopolitan Itineraries of Latin American Modernist Writers
• 7 The Seville Ibero-American Exposition in 1929 and the Participation of the Argentine Republic: Images, Ideas, and Women in Action
• 8 Mexico and Chile at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1937) and New York (1939): Revolution, Popular Front, and Modernity
• 9 Geopolitics in Encapsulated Worlds: Spatial Configuration and World Orders in the Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), and New York (1939) World’s Fairs
• Epilogue: The Past and Future of Exhibition Studies: A Latin American Perspective
• Bibliography
• Index