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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"World's Columbian Exposition"”.
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Daniel H. Burnham: his legacy to American architecture
… of the historical changes brought about by the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. By detailed examination of these three selected examples of Burnham's work, both before and after the 1893 event, this investigation will seek definition of a Burnham Style. Early in his career, Burnham became …
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The Rhode Island state house--the competition (1890-1892)
… became popularized through the vehicle of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. This building represents the ideals of the "City Beautiful", or "White City", movement which grew out of the influence of the Fair on the American Public. The study seeks to show how a small group of …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in terms of the conflicts they elide and the return of those elisions in sublimated forms. Chapter two, "Modernity Begins at Home," examines modernity and domesticity in Jane Addams's Hull-House writings and William Dean …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… also carried him to the Parliament of the World's Religions (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893), as a representative of 'Hinduism' rather than a Hindu representative of a religious community or organisation. His rise to fame at the Parliament also unfolded through spatial dynamic. …
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
… publications and archival records from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Chapter one takes a new look at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and shows how the presence of dancers performing the <em>danse du ventre </em>on the Midway Pliasance was turned into a flashpoint of …