A dream of the future : race, empire, and modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs /

A dream of the future : race, empire, and modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs /

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Author / Creator:	Cardon, Nathan, 1982- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Description:	xi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cotton States Exposition -- (1895 : -- Atlanta, Ga.) Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition -- (1897 : -- Nashville, Tenn.) Cotton States Exposition. Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Exhibitions -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects -- Southern States. Exhibitions -- History -- 19th century -- Economic aspects -- Southern States. Exhibitions. Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951. Southern States -- Race relations -- 19th century -- History. Southern States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11752504

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ISBN:	9780190274726 0190274727
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"'A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs' examines how southerners at the end of the nineteenth century worked through the major questions facing a nation undergoing profound change. In an age of empire and industry, southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. At the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta and the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition held in Nashville, they attempted to understand how their region could be industrial and imperial on its own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War veterans presented their dreams of the future. They aimed to prove to the world how rapidly the South had embraced and built, in the words of Henry Grady in 1890, 'from pitiful resources a great and expanding empire.' The Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs were spaces in which southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe. This work connects the South to a global conversation in the late nineteenth century over how to include peoples deemed fit for labor but unfit for citizenship"--
Other form:	Online version: Cardon, Nathan, 1982- Dream of the future. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] 9780190274733
Standard no.:	40028401429

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Summary:	As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War soldiers presented their dreams of the future to prove to the world how rapidly the South had embraced and, in the words of Henry Grady in 1890, built "from pitiful resources a great and expanding empire."Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs held at the close of the nineteenth century. Here, Southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe. Unlike the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, the Southern expositions also gave African Americans an opportunity to present their own vision of modernity within the fairs' "Negro Buildings." At the fairs, southern African Americans defined themselves as both a separate race and a modern people, as "New Negroes." In Dream of the Future, Cardon explores these assertions of Southern identity and culture, critically placing them within the wider context of imperialism and industrialization.
Physical Description:	xi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780190274726 0190274727