Lindsay Fullerton

Ephemeral City

A People's History of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair

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Produktbeschreibung

Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the 1933–1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression. Lindsay Fullerton draws on a wealth of personal photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, and writings to illuminate the wildly different experiences of fairgoers against the backdrop of a city steeped in poverty and segregation. The Exposition took place amidst massive changes sparked by expansion of mass media, Franklin Roosevelt’s election, the repeal of Prohibition, and the Great Migration. A diverse cross-section of Chicagoans informs Fullerton’s history of the event in the context of the fast-changing America of the interwar era. These personal accounts tell stories of how attendees interpreted their own experiences while being surrounded by whiz-bang products and full-throated evangelism on the benefits of progress. A colorful people’s history, Ephemeral City takes readers inside the other Chicago World’s Fair and how visitors interacted with a pivotal moment in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780252088520
• ISBN-10: 0252088522
• Artikelnr.: 72061688

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Fullerton is an historian and media studies scholar. She grew up in Chicagoland and holds a doctorate from the Northwestern University School of Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Century in the Making
2. A Century of Chicago
3. A Century of Money
4. A Century of Science and Technology
5. A New Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index