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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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I loved this book.
Rydell posits that the world's fairs that occurred from the late 19th century until the mid-twentieth century were designed to promote corporate and government agendas of imperialism, and to inaugurate the populace into a culture of unchecked consumerism. After reading this book, I'm convinced.
Published on February 2, 1999 by Eric
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World Fairs as Seen Through a Marxist Lens
If you want to know what the Worlds' Fairs would look like to a Marxist, then this is the book for you. The basic idea of Marxism is that Capitalism is an unsustainable system of "consumption" that relies on exploitation and imperialism to feed itself. The thesis of this book is that the Fairs were tools of the Bourgeois to enjoin the masses to become fully engaged in the...
Published on September 20, 2004 by Steve Rogers
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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I loved this book.,
By Eric "hangthedj" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions (Paperback)
Rydell posits that the world's fairs that occurred from the late 19th century until the mid-twentieth century were designed to promote corporate and government agendas of imperialism, and to inaugurate the populace into a culture of unchecked consumerism. After reading this book, I'm convinced.
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
World Fairs as Seen Through a Marxist Lens,
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This review is from: World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions (Paperback)
If you want to know what the Worlds' Fairs would look like to a Marxist, then this is the book for you. The basic idea of Marxism is that Capitalism is an unsustainable system of "consumption" that relies on exploitation and imperialism to feed itself. The thesis of this book is that the Fairs were tools of the Bourgeois to enjoin the masses to become fully engaged in the imperialistic feeding frenzy that was Capitalism from 1850-1950. The meaning of the fairs is as broad an issue as the meaning of Capitalism and western civilization - you can't find the meaning of the fairs by looking only at the fairs themselves. Such an analysis naturally depends heavily on the context the author brings to the task - and Rydell's context is Marxism.
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World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions by Robert W. Rydell (Paperback - November 1, 1993)
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