El imaginario español en las exposiciones universales del siglo XIX

During the second half of the 19th century, world exhibitions staged the utopian dream of Western civilization and progress. In the case of Spain, it is of particular interest, since its cultural diversity, its old political power that has fallen into decline and the exoticism aroused among Western travelers placed it time and again at the crossroads between tradition and modernity, where the tenuous border that separates the conventional notions of East and West.

ISBN: 9788437641577