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- catalog abstract "It was the most astonishing fair ever. "The grandest exposition this planet has ever witnessed," wrote one observer of the Columbian Exposition. A spectacular neoclassical "White City" designed by the nation's leading architects under the direction of Daniel Burnham; innumerable exhibits of science, technology, and the arts from throughout the world; a meeting place for a remarkable variety of social, intellectual, and religious groups; and a Midway of sometimes up-lifting, sometimes exotic attractions - all staged in that boisterous and fascinating city of wealth, culture, and corruption, Chicago. No fair since has so captured the imagination of the American people - indeed, people throughout the world. More than 27 million visitors (an extraordinary figure for 1893) came to see the great Chicago World's Fair, and it entertained them enormously. Its legacies - to literature, music, architecture, and city planning, among many fields - were notable. But the Columbian Exposition was also a telling portrait of American society at the turn of the nineteenth century. No event better illustrated the American rise to world power, better reflected American tastes and values, or better presaged the American Century to come. Robert Muccigrosso explores the history, substance, and larger meaning of the fair in this lively survey.".
- catalog contributor b4181540.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "But the Columbian Exposition was also a telling portrait of American society at the turn of the nineteenth century. No event better illustrated the American rise to world power, better reflected American tastes and values, or better presaged the American Century to come. Robert Muccigrosso explores the history, substance, and larger meaning of the fair in this lively survey.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-202) and index.".
- catalog description "It was the most astonishing fair ever. "The grandest exposition this planet has ever witnessed," wrote one observer of the Columbian Exposition. A spectacular neoclassical "White City" designed by the nation's leading architects under the direction of Daniel Burnham; innumerable exhibits of science, technology, and the arts from throughout the world; a meeting place for a remarkable variety of social, intellectual, and religious groups; and a Midway of sometimes up-lifting, sometimes exotic attractions - all staged in that boisterous and fascinating city of wealth, culture, and corruption, Chicago. No fair since has so captured the imagination of the American people - indeed, people throughout the world. More than 27 million visitors (an extraordinary figure for 1893) came to see the great Chicago World's Fair, and it entertained them enormously. Its legacies - to literature, music, architecture, and city planning, among many fields - were notable.".
- catalog description "Setting for a celebration -- The city on the prairie -- A gathering of architects -- "You must see this fair" -- A community of ideas -- For some, a harder struggle -- Satisfying popular tastes -- Legacies of a city of dream.".
- catalog extent "xii, 209 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Celebrating the New World.".
- catalog identifier "1566630134 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog identifier "1566630142 (paper : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Celebrating the New World.".
- catalog isPartOf "The American ways series".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : I.R. Dee,".
- catalog relation "Celebrating the New World.".
- catalog subject "907/.4/77311 20".
- catalog subject "T500.D9 M83 1993".
- catalog subject "World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Setting for a celebration -- The city on the prairie -- A gathering of architects -- "You must see this fair" -- A community of ideas -- For some, a harder struggle -- Satisfying popular tastes -- Legacies of a city of dream.".
- catalog title "Celebrating the New World : Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert Muccigrosso.".
- catalog type "text".