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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442627307
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035 _a(OCoLC)944178898
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082 0 4 _a907.4/4512
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDella Coletta, Cristina
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWorld's Fairs Italian-Style :
_bThe Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 /
_cCristina Della Coletta.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2006]
264 4 _c©2006
300 _a1 online resource (400 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aToronto Italian Studies
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520 _aAccording to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth.World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism.Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Italy.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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