Fleeting Cities

Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

By: Alexander C. T. Geppert

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Hardcover | 15 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

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"This book is a stunning achievement. ... The whole volume is full of insights, as the reader is taught how to read an exposition, as existing chronologies (not least the belief that exhibitions declined in popularity) are challenged and overturned, and as Geppert offers new ways of conceptualising the whole process, uncovering transnational links and exploring these places as sites for an urban modernity in ways that other authors have hitherto scarcely touched on." (William Whyte, English Historical Review, February, 2016)

"Geppert not only invites us to look beyond exhibitions as vessels of imperial propaganda, but also adds depth to our understanding of them with his theorised account on the spatial element of world exhibitions." (Matthijs Kuipers, European Review of History, Vol. 22 (6), August, 2015)

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Figures and Plates	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction: How to Read an Exposition	p. 1
Spaces of modernity	p. 3
1851 ff.	p. 6
The rise of exposition studies	p. 9
Modus procedendi	p. 12
Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung	p. 16
Why never in Germany?	p. 17
Labor, water and the site	p. 37
Pleasures of the metropolis	p. 44
Wilhelm II versus Georg Simmel	p. 56
Paris 1900: The Exposition Universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis	p. 62
Queen city of expositions	p. 64
Tabula rasa	p. 65
Polynuclear or clou-less?	p. 76
An exposition in 1911?	p. 97
London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition	p. 101
A superman in the exhibition world	p. 104
Dazzling whiteness	p. 109
'Flip-Flap' versus 'native villages'	p. 117
Seeing national beauty	p. 128
Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis	p. 134
Setting the stage	p. 141
The eighth wonder of the world	p. 146
The heart of the heart of the heart	p. 152
Signs of dissolution	p. 162
Fact and fancy	p. 169
Vincennes 1931: The Exposition Coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity	p. 179
Paris versus Marseilles	p. 180
Emplacement	p. 183
Dream city	p. 186
The truth about the colonies	p. 194
Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium	p. 201
Peace, progress, prosperity	p. 202
Exhibition fatigue	p. 206
Counter-reactions, institutional and international	p. 217
Sites, cities, sights	p. 221
Theorizing European exposition practices	p. 240
Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition	p. 248
Appendix	p. 250
National and international expositions, 1750-1951, with an emphasis on Western Europe	p. 250
Sites, clous and residuals, 1851-1951	p. 256
Dramatis personae	p. 261
National exhibitions committees and international treatises	p. 280
Georg Simmel, Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung/The Berlin Trade Exhibition (1896)	p. 281
Notes	p. 286
Bibliography	p. 328
Archival sources	p. 328
Journals, newspapers and serials	p. 331
Primary sources	p. 333
Secondary sources	p. 360
Index	p. 384
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