Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: World’s Fairs, Modernity, and the Demand for Authenticity
2. Modernity à la française: The 1937 Paris Exposition
3. Fantasies of Consumption at Schaffendes Volk: National Socialism and the Four-Year Plan
4. Whose Modernity?: Utopia and Commerce at the 1939 New York World’s Fair
5. Modernity on Display: The 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan
6. EUR: Mussolini’s Appian Way to Modernity
7. Redefining Cultural Conflict: The First Postwar International Exposition
Notes
Bibliography
Index