1st Edition
Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939
Introduction: The World’s Fairs as Cultural World Maps
Paula Bruno
1. The World’s Fairs and Ibero-American Participation in the Long Nineteenth Century
M. Elizabeth Boone
2. Latin America at the World’s Fairs: A Comparative Analysis of National Pavilions, 1867–1939
Sven Schuster
3. Republics of Letters: Latin American Libraries, Newspapers, and Leaflets at the European and North American World’s Fairs, 1867–1906
Juan David Murillo Sandoval
4. French-Ecuadorian Dialogue at the Paris Fairs, 1878–1900
María José Jarrín
5. The Chicago Fair of 1893 as an “Abbreviated World”: Observations from Prominent Figures in the Spanish-Speaking Literary Community
Paula Bruno
6. The 1900 Paris World’s Fair: Cosmopolitan Itineraries of Latin American Modernist Writers
Alejandra Uslenghi
7. The Seville Ibero-American Exposition in 1929 and the Participation of the Argentine Republic: Images, Ideas, and Women in Action
Georgina Gluzman
8. Mexico and Chile at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1937) and New York (1939): Revolution, Popular Front, and Modernity
Sylvia Dummer Scheel
9. Geopolitics in Encapsulated Worlds: Spatial Configuration and World Orders in the Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), and New York (1939) World’s Fairs
Carla Lois
Epilogue: The Past and Future of Exhibition Studies: A Latin American Perspective
Sven Schuster
Biography
Paula Bruno is a researcher specializing in Latin America. She is co-author of Embajadoras culturales. Mujeres latinoamericanas y vida diplomática, 1860–1960 (Cultural Ambassadresses. Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860–1960) (2021) and author of Martín García Mérou. Vida intelectual y diplomática en las Américas (Martín García Mérou. Intellectual and Diplomatic Life in the Americas) (2018), among other publications.
Sven Schuster is Professor of History at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. He is the author of A vista de pájaro. Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia (A Bird’s Eye View: A New Look at Colombia, 1919–1940) (2024) and "The World’s Fairs as Spaces of Global Knowledge: Latin American Archaeology and Anthropology in the Age of Exhibitions" (Journal of Global History, 2018), among other publications.
