Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939
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- ISBN 9781032867250
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the World’s Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.
It introduces the notion of "cultural world maps" to understand these events as reflections of the global landscape. The fairs played a crucial role in showcasing state and private endeavors, shaping identities, facilitating knowledge exchange, and disseminating objects and ideas. Through innovative approaches, the essays in Latin America and the World’s Fairs, 1867–1939 depart from conventional nation-centric accounts, drawing on insights from cultural history, global and comparative history, as well as exhibition studies.
This volume will be of value to students, scholars, as well as general readers interested in Latin American history and social and cultural history.
Paula Bruno is a researcher specializing in Latin America. She is co-author of Embajadoras culturales. Mujeres latinoamericanas y vida diplomática, 1860–1960 (Cultural Ambassadresses. Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860–1960) (2021) and author of Martín García Mérou. Vida intelectual y diplomática en las Américas (Martín García Mérou. Intellectual and Diplomatic Life in the Americas) (2018), among other publications.
Sven Schuster is Professor of History at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. He is the author of A vista de pájaro. Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia (A Bird’s Eye View: A New Look at Colombia, 1919–1940) (2024) and "The World’s Fairs as Spaces of Global Knowledge: Latin American Archaeology and Anthropology in the Age of Exhibitions" (Journal of Global History, 2018), among other publications.
