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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly 100 million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. In "All the World's a Fair", Robert W. Rydell described how Victorian-era world's fairs helped create a blueprint for modern America. Now, with "World of Fairs", he shows how the interwar exhibitions heralded the arrival of modern America - a new empire of abundance built on old foundations of inequality. Rydell demonstrates how the fairs reached their height of popularity following the crash of 1929 by offering a vision of recovery from the Depression through the united powers of science and industry. Beneath the surface, however, lay persistent themes of imperialism and racism as government officials, industrial leaders, and intellectuals alike used the fairs to reinforce their own authority and the established social order. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition

Multidisciplinary organizations --- History of civilization --- anno 1900-1999 --- 061.41 --- Wereldtentoonstellingen --- Exhibitions --- Trade shows --- History --- History. --- 061.41 Wereldtentoonstellingen --- Industrial exhibitions --- Technology --- Trade expositions --- Trade fairs --- Fairs --- Expositions --- Exposition universelle --- Entre-deux-guerres

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History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.

Trade shows --- Salons professionnels --- History --- Histoire --- CDL --- 792 --- Industrial exhibitions --- Technology --- Trade expositions --- Trade fairs --- Exhibitions --- Fairs --- Exhibition catalogs. --- Trade shows. --- Bildband. --- Ausstellung. --- Geschichte 1600-1862. --- London (England) --- Londres (Angl.) --- England --- London. --- History. --- Expositions --- Histoire.

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Exhibitions --- Trade shows --- 658.8 --- Industrial exhibitions --- Technology --- Trade expositions --- Trade fairs --- Fairs --- Exhibits --- Expositions --- Industrial arts --- International exhibitions --- World's fairs --- Sales promotion --- Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- Trade shows. --- 658.8 Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- Expos (Exhibitions)

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Entering and successfully surviving in export markets is a costly process for firms. The process involves learning about the existence of foreign demand, "discovering" production costs of exportable goods, building up reputation, succeeding in product branding to reduce competitive pressures and to be constantly upgrading quality standards to better serve demanding international clients, and remaining competitive vis-a-vis other players in the global marketplace. This paper argues that tourism can help alleviate some of these costs by providing a relatively inexpensive platform for cost-discovery and by acting as a low-cost "in-house" trade fair, accessible to all domestic producers. The analysis combines product-level data on world and Nepal's exports (both for goods that are related and unrelated to tourism) with Nepalese data on tourist inflows and expenditures and macro indicators on relative prices. For tourism-related goods, the analysis reveals a positive association between tourist inflows from given destinations and their expenditures, with future merchandise exports to those destinations. Instead, for goods a priori unrelated to tourism, the data reveal no connection between tourism flows and future exports. The results suggest spillovers from tourism into merchandise export performance and diversification and would imply that there are gains from cooperation between tourism and export promotion agencies.

Diversification --- Economic Theory & Research --- Export Performance --- Free Trade --- International Economics & Trade --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Markets and Market Access --- Panel Data --- Poverty Reduction --- Tourism --- Tourism and Ecotourism --- Trade Fairs --- Trade Policy

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"Cosmopolitan approach frames the issue within a more international setting than is common in works about a single Latin American country. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Trade shows --- Exhibitions --- Salons professionnels --- Expositions --- History --- Histoire --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- National characteristics, Mexican --- Technology - General --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mexican national characteristics --- Exhibits --- Expos (Exhibitions) --- Industrial arts --- Industrial exhibitions --- International exhibitions --- Technology --- World's fairs --- Trade expositions --- Trade fairs --- Sales promotion --- Fairs --- History.