Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States

Acknowledged authors Rydell, Robert W., Pelle, Kimberly D., Findling, John E. wrote Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States comprising 180 pages back in 2000. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 1560989688 and 9781560989684. Since then Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

Since their inception in the mid-19th century, World Fairs have introduced Americans to exotic pleasures, like belly dancing and the ferris wheel, and groundbreaking technologies such as telephones and x-rays. Profiling more than 30 fairs from 1853 to 1984, the authors demonstrate how the fairs reflected and influenced the ideals and complexities of their times. Includes archival photo of exhibits and souvenirs.