From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow

World Fairs as a Transnational Series
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage84en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage106en_US
dc.contributor.authorGross, Florian
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-09T13:37:04Z
dc.date.available2022-12-09T13:37:04Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines the second world fair, the New York Crystal Palace of 1853 and 1854, as an important example for the formation of a specifically “modern” as well as “American” popular culture and argues that world fairs should be read as a serial cultural form. On the surface, the exhibition was an obviously derivative transposition of the first world fair at London’s Crystal Palace. But the American version also introduced significant innovations to the form, such as the establishment of a private, republican, and capitalist rather than royal enterprise or the explicit inclusion of popular entertainment – thus contributing to a nationalist agenda that sought to define Americanness in an ambivalent dialectic between distinction from and reliance upon European cultural forms. Due to this productive ambivalence, the New York Crystal Palace was a crucial instance in the establishment of the transnational, popular, and above all serial form of cultural self-fashioning that is the world fair. It consolidated and exemplified a cosmopolitan series whose respective instances asserted national specificity at the same time that they linked their national (ist) agendas to transnational modernity.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/9789004500327
dc.identifier.isbn9789004500327
dc.identifier.isbn9789004498822
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2777
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publishedInLeidenen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.editorLeerssen, Joep
dc.relation.editorStorm, Eric
dc.relation.ispartofWorld Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identitiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofaltInternational Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851–1958en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNational Cultivation of Culture; 27
dc.rightsL::The Stacks Licenseen_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:900en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:973en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldhistoryen_US
dc.subject.fieldculturalstudiesen_US
dc.titleFrom the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrowen_US
dc.title.alternativeWorld Fairs as a Transnational Seriesen_US
dc.typeanthologyArticleen_US
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