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Internationalist Exhibitionism: The League of Nations at the New York World's Fair, 1939–1940

| 2018

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"Internationalist Exhibitionism" tells the surprising story of the League of Nations' last-ditch efforts to appeal to the American public, through its building of a pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939-40. Contributing in particular to the new historiographies of internationalism and public diplomacy, the chapter shows how the League translated into architecture its desire to salvage internationalism for a future, postwar period in which the United States would lead the world. The Pavilion was never a success, and by the end of the Fair, with war raging, it was a decrepit, lonely monument to a dormant dream.

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Allen, David. "Internationalist Exhibitionism: The League of Nations at the New York World's Fair, 1939–1940." in Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, and Heidi J. S. Tworek (eds.), International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Exorbitant Expectations (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp 91–116.

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