Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia

by Bruno Giberti

Book Overview

The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity--the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813192137
• ISBN13: 9780813192130
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"