Together with the Olympics, worlds fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A Worlds Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on worlds fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate worlds fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. In...