World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities

Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Among his recent publications are National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History (2018) and the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe(2018).Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University. He is author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions (2010) and co-editor of Writing the History of Nationalism (2019).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionEric Storm and Joep Leerssen1 Trademarking the Nation: World Fairs, Spectacles, and the Banalization of NationalismJoep Leerssen2 The Transnational Construction of National Identities: A Classification of National Pavilions at World FairsEric Storm3 From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow: World Fairs as a Transnational SeriesFlorian Groß4 Russian National Identity at World Fairs, 1851–1900Anthony Swift5 Roma Musicians, Folk Art and Traditional Food from Romania at the Paris World Fairs of 1889 and 1900Cosmin Minea6 Portraying France: French Art in American World Fairs, 1893–1915Claire Hendren7 Selling Tea as Japanese History: Culture, Consumption and International Expositions, 1873–191Taka Oshikiri8 Self Becomes Nation: Sol Bloom and America’s World Fairs, 1893–1939Robert W. Rydell9 Colombia in the Age of Exhibitions: Envisioning the Nation in a Global Context, 1892–1929Sven Schuster10 Displaying the “Mexican” National Identity and Transnational Entanglements at the New York World’s Fair, 1939–40Miriam Oesterreich11 World Fairs as Tools of Diplomacy: Interwar PolandBartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk12 Promoting Sweden: The Socioeconomic Section of the Swedish Pavilion Display at the 1937 World Fair in ParisChristina Romlid13 The International Institute for Intellectual Co-Operation at the World Fair 1937 in Paris: Profiling Internationalism in a “Hyper-Nationalistic” Context?Jonathan Voges14 Exhibiting European Integration at Expo 58: The European Coal and Steel Community PavilionAnastasia RemesIndex