The Book of the Fair
Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
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Author | : Richard Thompson |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1643751700 |
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 “Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello In this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend Richard Thompson recreates the spirit of his early years, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, Thompson also belongs in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Here the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity for both him and the world at large. During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. It was a thrilling period of massive tours, where Thompson was on the road in both the UK and the US, crossing paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a time of heady and explosive creativity for Thompson, who wrote some of his most famous songs during this time. But as Thompson reveals, those eight years were also marked by upheaval and tragedy. Honest, moving, and compelling, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable man and musician during a period of artistic intensity, in a world on the cusp of change. “An absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Exhibitions |
ISBN | : |
The wealth of information in this collection should be mined for generations by social scientists and historians of science, technology, and industry. It not only introduces the literature to the scholar, but provides a guide to a varied range of exposition publications.
Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Exhibitions |
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Author | : Helen Augur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fairs |
ISBN | : 9780810339279 |
Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert W. Rydell |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588343421 |
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erik Mattie |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781568981321 |
As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as barometers of the optimism for the future. While many of the products and ideas promoted at past fairs never materialized, many became commonplace: television, for example, was first shown at the 1939 New York fair. Similarly, while many buildings and landscapes built for fairs have become world-wide icons - the Eiffel Tower, the Crystal Palace, the Barcelona Pavilion, the Seattle Space Needle, the Buckminster Fuller Dome in Montreal - hundreds of splendid structures have been forgotten.
Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-09-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781015295759 |
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