Edited by Joep Leerssen and Eric Storm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community.
World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a \u201cbrand\u201d, while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in \u201cbanal\u201d form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism.
Contributors are: Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm, Florian Gro\u00df, Anthony Swift, Cosmin Minea, Claire Hendren, Taka Oshikiri, Robert W. Rydell, Sven Schuster, Miriam Oesterreich, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefa\u0144czyk, Christina Romlid, Jonathan Voges, and Anastasia Remes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joep Leerssen<\/strong> is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Among his recent publications are National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History<\/em> (2018) and the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe<\/em>(2018). Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n List of Illustrations
Eric Storm<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University. He is author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions<\/em> (2010) and co-editor of Writing the History of Nationalism<\/em> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction<\/strong>
\u2003 Eric Storm and Joep Leerssen<\/em>
1 Trademarking the Nation: World Fairs, Spectacles, and the Banalization of Nationalism<\/strong>
\u2003 Joep Leerssen<\/em>
2 The Transnational Construction of National Identities: A Classification of National Pavilions at World Fairs<\/strong>
\u2003 Eric Storm<\/em>
3 From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow: World Fairs as a Transnational Series<\/strong>
\u2003 Florian Gro\u00df<\/em>
4 Russian National Identity at World Fairs, 1851\u20131900<\/strong>
\u2003 Anthony Swift<\/em>
5 Roma Musicians, Folk Art and Traditional Food from Romania at the Paris World Fairs of 1889 and 1900<\/strong>
\u2003 Cosmin Minea<\/em>
6 Portraying France: French Art in American World Fairs, 1893\u20131915<\/strong>
\u2003 Claire Hendren<\/em>
7 Selling Tea as Japanese History: Culture, Consumption and International Expositions, 1873\u2013191<\/strong>
\u2003 Taka Oshikiri<\/em>
8 Self Becomes Nation: Sol Bloom and America\u2019s World Fairs, 1893\u20131939<\/strong>
\u2003 Robert W. Rydell<\/em>
9 Colombia in the Age of Exhibitions: Envisioning the Nation in a Global Context, 1892\u20131929<\/strong>
\u2003 Sven Schuster<\/em>
10 Displaying the \u201cMexican\u201d National Identity and Transnational Entanglements at the New York World\u2019s Fair, 1939\u201340<\/strong>
\u2003 Miriam Oesterreich<\/em>
11 World Fairs as Tools of Diplomacy: Interwar Poland<\/strong>
\u2003 Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefa\u0144czyk<\/em>
12 Promoting Sweden: The Socioeconomic Section of the Swedish Pavilion Display at the 1937 World Fair in Paris<\/strong>
\u2003 Christina Romlid<\/em>
13 The International Institute for Intellectual Co-Operation at the World Fair 1937 in Paris: Profiling Internationalism in a \u201cHyper-Nationalistic\u201d Context?<\/strong>
\u2003 Jonathan Voges<\/em>
14 Exhibiting European Integration at Expo 58: The European Coal and Steel Community Pavilion<\/strong>
\u2003 Anastasia Remes<\/em>
Index<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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