{"product_id":"the-transmississippi-and-international-expositions-of-18981899-9780803278806","title":"The TransMississippi and International","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[The contributors] demonstrate exceptional skill in interrogating the overlapping discourses of Whiteness and gender at the fairs. . . . Taken all together, perhaps this volume’s greatest strength is the consistent excellence of each scholar’s granular attention to detail aligned with tightly organized analysis such that each object in the metaphorical department store window feels necessary to the overall picture, never overfurnished.”—Madison L. Heslop, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899\u003c\/i\u003e] provides a significant addition of high-quality scholarly work to a fascinating topic, and does what good scholarship should do. It opens multiple conversations and lines of inquiry that will surely lead in any number of new directions.\"—Rachel McLean Sailor, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This edited collection deserves a serious look among scholars seeking to explore a host of themes in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from Native American history and Victorian femininity to imperialism and consumerism. Hopefully, Katz's commendable collection will inspire future work on other fairs that have too long been in the shadow of Chicago.\"—Michael S. Powers, H-SHGAPE\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899\u003c\/i\u003e] contains a number of interesting, readable, and important essays.\"—James Gilbert, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a strong edited collection that will interest art historians, world's fairs scholars, indigenous studies researchers, and cultural and social historians of empire.\"—Nathan Cardon, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899\u003c\/i\u003e] contributes fruitfully to the growing body of scholarship on popular culture that informs and enriches our understanding of the \"fine arts\" of the period.\"—Kimberly Orcutt, \u003ci\u003ePanorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an excellent collection that offers insight into the social and cultural history of these Omaha fairs and into the way that popular culture offered a venue for the construction of both U.S. imperial aims and regional identity during the Progressive Era.”—Abigail Markwyn, associate professor of history at Carroll University and author of\u003ci\u003e Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: America’s Jewel in the Crown\u003cbr\u003e Robert W. Rydell\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Great American Desert Is No More”\u003cbr\u003e Sarah J. Moore\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Commemorative Stamp Issue\u003cbr\u003e Bonnie M. Miller\u003cbr\u003e 3. Women and Art in the Passing Show\u003cbr\u003e Wendy Jean Katz\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trilby Goes Naked and Native on the Midway\u003cbr\u003e Emily Godbey\u003cbr\u003e 5. Condensed Loveliness\u003cbr\u003e Tracey Jean Boisseau\u003cbr\u003e 6. Indigenous Identities in the Imperialist Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Akim Reinhardt\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exposition Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e Nancy J. Parezo\u003cbr\u003e 8. Hawaiʻi and the Philippines at the Omaha Expositions\u003cbr\u003e Stacy L. Kamehiro and Danielle B. Crawford\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Art of the Historian\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Schaffert\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405277471063,"sku":"9780803278806","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803278806.jpg?v=1730489400","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-transmississippi-and-international-expositions-of-18981899-9780803278806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}