A dream of the future : race, empire, and modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 24052515
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780190274726.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190274726
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- A Dream of the Future is a 70,000-word monograph that draws from a diverse range of primary material located across the United States. It mobilizes previously unseen sources and original research from the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and archives located in Atlanta, Ga, Nashville, TN, Chapel Hill, SC, and Toronto, Canada. It builds on a diverse historiographical and theoretical landscape that includes Southern, African American, and United States History and histories of modernity. It carefully combed over thirty newspapers and magazines, some only available on microfilm. The research and writing of the book took over seven years.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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