Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-De-Siècle Europe

By Alexander C.T. Geppert

Book Overview

Imperial expositions held in fin-de-si cle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137358327
• ISBN13: 9781137358325
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"