Tag: United States

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: An Interview with Elizabeth Macaulay

.Reading time 20 minutes.

Interviewed by Grace Gillies American world’s fairs at the turn of the twentieth century built visions of modernity and the future that were pointedly expressed through a language of the past. In Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World’s Fairs 1893-1915, Elizabeth Macaulay unpacks the context and subtext of Greco-Roman and Egyptianizing […]

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Review: The New, New Urban American History? Richard Harris on The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.  2 volumes. ISBN 9780190853860 (set) By Richard Harris No question, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History stands as a major achievement testifying to the extraordinary quantity, quality, and diversity of contemporary research on American cities and suburbs. […]

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