From The Fair

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923258
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the World's a Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.

Author : Donald Crews
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688114830
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night at the Fair written by Donald Crews and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-04-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time! The gates are open, the rides are spinning-come to the fair! Nighttime at the fair is magic with Caldecott Honor-winning author-artist Donald Crews. The sky goes dark and the colored lights begin to flash and sparkle. There are games to play and treats to eat. From the top of the Ferris wheel you can see where you've been-and where you have yet to go. So much to do and see. Hurry!

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343421
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Author : Hilary Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684641475
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Moon written by Hilary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright, eye-catching color will draw children to this entertaining new board book. Children can search and find Gregory the Goose camouflaged against the background. Well-known author Hilary Robinson adds her humor and skill to this new series developed especially for toddlers and early learners.

Author : Hilary Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684641451
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Fair written by Hilary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright, eye-catching color will draw children to this entertaining new board book. Children can search and find Gregory the Goose camouflaged against the background. Well-known author Hilary Robinson adds her humor and skill to this new series developed especially for toddlers and early learners.

Author : Sholom Aleichem
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Fair written by Sholom Aleichem and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) began writing his autobiography when he was 49 and was still working on it when he died at age 57. He considered From the Fair his greatest achievement, a book that combined the story of his life and a cultural and spiritual history of his times. Sholom Aleichem called it “my book of books, the Song of Songs of my soul.” In 1908, a Russian newspaper in Kiev asked for an autobiographical sketch, and Sholom Aleichem decided to use a third-person narrative voice for what became a memoir. From the Fair was published in short installments, serialized for newspaper readers. It takes us from the author’s childhood in a Pale of Settlement shtetl to his first love and his early attempts at writing fiction and drama. “I, Sholom Aleichem the writer, will tell the true story of Sholom Aleichem the man,” he writes, “informally and without adornments and embellishments, as if an absolute stranger were talking, yet one who accompanied him everywhere, even to the seven divisions of hell.” The result is essential background for Sholom Aleichem’s works of fiction. Curt Leviant is a prizewinning novelist, author of The Yemenite Girl and Passion in the Desert. His short stories and novellas have been published in many magazines and have been included in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories and other anthologies. He has won the Wallant Prize, an O. Henry Award, and is a Fellow in Literature of the National Endowment for the Arts. A frequent lecturer on Yiddish and Hebrew literature, he has also translated three other Sholom Aleichem collections.

Author : Bill Masterson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055730010X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Farm to the Fair written by Bill Masterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conrad F. Fritsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemptions from the Fair Labor Standards Act, Retail Trade and Services written by Conrad F. Fritsch and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Chevallier
Publisher : Chez Jim
ISBN 13 : 0557919819
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Man with Two Heads and His Friends from the Fair: Monologues Inspired by French 18th Century Fairs written by Jim Chevallier and published by Chez Jim. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translations from the German: Musæus: Dumb love. Libussa. Melechsala. Tieck: The fair-haired Eckbert. The trusty Eckart. The Runenberg. The elves. The goblet. Richter: Schmelzel's journey to Flætz. Life of Quintus Fixlein written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: