Utopia, nostalgia and World War at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Duranti, Marco ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural history; Europe; International expositions; Second World War; Trauma; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347295795     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009406067749     Document Type: Review

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