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Chicago's white city of 1893
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ISBN: 0813150477 9780813150475 9780813113319 0813113318 0813101409 9780813101408 0813113318 9780813101408 0813184681 Year: 1976 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion. Although the World's Columbian Exposition was the fifteenth world's fair, it was of vastly greater scope than any of its predecessors. Chicago created a veritable new city. It was not only larger than any previous exposition but also more elaborately designed, more precisely laid out, more fully realized, and more prophetic. It was the first exposition truly to solicit the participation of the entire world.In this study of the White C


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Coming of age in Chicago
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ISBN: 0803284497 0803284470 9780803284470 9780803284494 9780803268388 0803268386 9780803284487 0803284489 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln


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Unfair Labor? : American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
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ISBN: 1496214862 1496214846 1496206835 9781496214843 9781496214867 9781496206831 9781496214850 1496214854 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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"Unfair Labor? breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers, naming names, and uncovering the untold story of the roles that Native Americans involved in the 1893 World's Fair played in the changing economic conditions of tribal peoples and redefining their place in the American socioeconomic landscape"--


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Practicing citizenship : women's rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
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ISBN: 0271083506 027108443X 9780271084435 9780271084459 0271084456 9780271083506 Year: 2019 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"Explores women's conceptions of citizenship as articulated in their speeches at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Illustrates how, in addition to working for their own enfranchisement, women also modeled practices of democratic citizenship beyond the ballot"--Provided by publisher.

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