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Article: World's Fairs Italian Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2008
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World's Fairs Italian Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915, by Cristina Della Colletta. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. x, 351 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth).
Over the past two decades, scholars have found fruitful terrain in the golden age of World's Fairs and expositions. London's Great Exposition of 1851 and Paris' many Expositions Universelles captured the spirit of the Belle Epoque: its boundless faith in progress and technology; its sense of an imperial mission; and even its anxieties about the subversive forces lurking behind the facade of these glorious pageants. Yet, as Cristina Della Colletta ...