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Author Graff, Rebecca S., author.

Title Disposing of modernity : the archaeology of garbage and consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair / Rebecca S. Graff
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 203 pages)
Contents Introduction: The Vanishing Fair and the Enduring Home -- Situating the Sites in Chicago: Elite Networks and Archaeology -- Temporalities as Ideologies -- Domesticity and Social Life -- Consumption and Conspicuous Disposal -- Conclusion: At the Center of the World, Again
Summary "Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, this book explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2021)
SUBJECT World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- History
World's Columbian Exposition fast
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago
Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Exhibitions
Manners and customs
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023235
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020001904
ISBN 9780813057552
0813057558
9780813058702
0813058708