Book ID: CBB572373100

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin De Siècle (2018)

unapi

Katz, Wendy Jean (Author)


University of Nebraska Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 484 pp.
Language: English

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha's key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation's place in bringing "civilization" to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World's Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. This book shows the event's place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. Essays cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture.

...More
Reviewed By
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB572373100/

Similar Citations

Chapter Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory; (2011)
Place and Museum Space: The Smithsonian Institution, National Identity, and the American West, 1846--1896 (/isis/citation/CBB001231568/)

Book Schwoch, James; (2018)
Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier (/isis/citation/CBB979459955/)

Book Christina Bueno; (2016)
The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico (/isis/citation/CBB679676540/)

Article Ron Goldfeber; Peter A. Hansen; (Spring-Summer 2019)
The Pacific Railroads: U.S. Operating Companies in Alphabetical Order (/isis/citation/CBB873515283/)

Book Virginia Scharf; (2015)
Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West (/isis/citation/CBB673053590/)

Book Schwantes, Carlos A.; Ronda, James P.; (2008)
The West the Railroads Made (/isis/citation/CBB000950995/)

Book Lorenz P. Schrenk; Robert L. Frey; (2010)
Northern Pacific: Pioneer steam era (/isis/citation/CBB057031982/)

Book Adam Arenson; Andrew R. Graybill; (2015)
Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (/isis/citation/CBB116361332/)

Book T.J. Stiles; (2015)
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (/isis/citation/CBB298251953/)

Book John Taliaferro; (2019)
Grinnell: America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West (/isis/citation/CBB461663785/)

Book Rogers, Jedediah Smart; (2013)
Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country (/isis/citation/CBB001451474/)

Book Francaviglia, Richard V.; (2008)
Over the Range: A history of the Promontory Summit route of the Pacific railroad (/isis/citation/CBB981159869/)

Authors & Contributors
Hansen, Peter A.
Kathke, Torsten
Stiles, T.J.
Robert L. Frey
John Taliaferro
Graybill, Andrew R.
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
National identity
Frontier
Technology and politics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Modern
Medieval
Places
Western states (U.S.)
United States
Promontory Point, Utah
North America
Mexico
Institutions
Union Pacific Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pacific Railroad
United States. Army
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment