World fairs and the global moulding of national identities : : international exhibitions as cultural platforms, 1851-1958 / / edited by Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm.

• TeilnehmendeR: Leerssen, Joseph Th. 1955-; Storm, Eric, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Brill2203, 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English

"This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 to 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community. World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a "brand", while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in "banal" form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism. Contributors are: Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm, Florian Gross, Anthony Swift, Cosmin Minea, Claire Hendren, Taka Oshikiri, Robert W. Rydell, Sven Schuster, Miriam Oesterreich, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Christina Romlid, Jonathan Voges, and Anastasia Remes. Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Among his recent publications are "National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History" (2018) and the "Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe" (2018). Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer of European History at Leiden University. He is author of "The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions" (2010) and co-editor of "Writing the History of Nationalism" (2019)"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Eric Storm and Joep Leerssen -- Trademarking the nation : world fairs, spectacles, and the banalization of nationalism / Joep Leerssen -- The transnational construction of national identities : a classification of national pavilions at world fairs / Eric Storm -- From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow : world fairs as a transnational series / Florian Gross -- Russian national identity at world fairs, 1851-1900 / Anthony Swift -- Roma musicians, folk art and traditional food from Romania at the Paris world fairs of 1889 and 1900 / Cosmin Minea -- Portraying France : French art in American world fairs, 1893-1915 / Claire Hendren -- Selling tea as Japanese history : culture, consumption and international expositions, 1873-191 / Taka Oshikiri -- Self becomes nation : Sol Bloom and America's world fairs, 1893-1939 / Robert W. Rydell -- Colombia in the age of exhibitions : envisioning the nation in a global context, 1892-1929 / Sven Schuster -- Displaying the "Mexican" national identity and transnational entanglements at the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 / Miriam Oesterreich -- World fairs as tools of diplomacy : interwar Poland / Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk -- Promoting Sweden : the socioeconomic section of the Swedish pavilion display at the 1937 World Fair in Paris / Christina Romlid -- The International Institute for Intellectual Co-Operation at the World Fair 1937 in Paris : profiling internationalism in a "hyper-nationalistic" context? / Jonathan Voges -- Exhibiting European integration at Expo 58 : the European Coal and Steel Community pavilion / Anastasia Remes.