A World's Fair for the Global Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World's Fair for the Global Village write by Carl Malamud. This book was released on 1997. A World's Fair for the Global Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A World's Fair for the Global Village
A World's Fair for the Global Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World's Fair for the Global Village write by Carl Malamud. This book was released on 1997. A World's Fair for the Global Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malamud offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Internet Exposition of 1996--a worldwide event which embraced the new technologies of the Internet--and profiles the small group of people who made it happen. The book comes with an audio CD and a CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95. 800 color illustrations.
The World's Fair
The World's Fair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World's Fair write by Thomas L. Tedrow. This book was released on 1992. The World's Fair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman Anthropological Games.
Time Capsules
Time Capsules - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time Capsules write by William E. Jarvis. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Time Capsules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Such vessels have the dual purpose of causing participants to ponder their own cultural era and think about those to come. This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.
Fair America
Fair America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fair America write by Robert W. Rydell. This book was released on 2013-06-04. Fair America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
