Epilogue: Showcases for Global Aspirations: Meditations on the Histories of Olympic Games and World's Fairs

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Notes

[1] Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851; Leapman, The World for a Shilling; Buzard et al., Victorian Prism; Young, Globalization and the Great Exhibition; Auerbach and Hoffenberg. Britain, the Empire, and the World.

[2] Shorter, The Brontës:.

[3] For a classic expression of intellectual bedazzlement at the fairs see Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

[4] Allwood, The Great Exhibitions. Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas; Rydell, World of Fairs; Findling and Pelle. Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions.

[5] The website of the Yeosu fair provides a fascinating tour. See http://www.expo2012.or.kr/eng/main.asp, accessed 20 Sept. 2010.

[6] The website for the Shanghai exposition promoting ‘Better City, Better Life’ can be found at http://en.expo2010.cn/, accessed 20 Sept. 2010.

[7] For a fascinating analysis that tackles both the expositions and the Olympics as global ‘mega-events’ see Roche, Mega-Events and Modernity.

[8] MacAloon, This Great Symbol.

[9] For links between the Olympic movement and the exposition movement see Roche, Mega-Events and Modernity and MacAloon, This Great Symbol.

[10] Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851.

[11] For a more complete development of this argument see Dyreson, ‘“To Construct a Better and More Peaceful World”’

[12] Mandell, The Nazi Olympics; Large, Nazi Games; Mauro, Twilight at the World of Tomorrow; Zim et al., The World of Tomorrow; Roche, Mega-Events and Modernity.

[13] Dyreson, ‘“To Construct a Better and More Peaceful World”’.

[14] Adams, ‘The Dynamo and the Virgin’, in The Education of Henry Adams, 379–90; Dyreson, Making the American Team.

[15] Paradis, ‘Manly Displays’, in this issue.

[16] Dyreson, Crafting Patriotism for Global Domination; Dyreson, ‘Crafting Patriotism – Meditations on “Californication”’; Dyreson, ‘Johnny Weissmuller and the Old Global Capitalism’; Dyreson, ‘Marketing Weissmuller to the World’.

[17] Gleaves and Dyreson, ‘The “Black Auxiliaries” in American Memories’, in this issue.

[18] Pfister, ‘Outsiders: Muslim Women and Olympic Games’.

[19] See Roult and Lefebre, ‘Planning and Reconversion of Olympics’ Heritages'; Brewster, ‘Mexico City 1968’; Toohey, ‘Post-Sydney 2000’; Kissoudi, ‘Athens' Post-Olympic Aspirations and the Extent of their Realization’, all in this issue.

[20] Mangan, ‘Prologue’, in this issue.

[21] Dickens and Horne, ‘The Great Exhibition and the Little One’.

[22] Brownell, Beijing's Games; Xu Guoqi, Olympic Dreams. For additional perspectives see Dong Jinxia, ‘The Beijing Games’; Ying Yu, ‘Olympic Aspirations’; Juan Zhuang, ‘Beijing 2008’; Syed, ‘The Effect of Beijing 2008 on China's Image in the United States’; and Close, ‘Olympiads as Mega-Events and the Pace of Globalization’, all in this issue.

[23] Mangan, ‘Prologue’; Horton and Zakus, ‘How Green will my (Lea) Valley Be?’; and Macrury and Poynter, ‘“Team GB” and London 2012’, all in this issue. For broader perspectives on the ‘fall’ of Great Britain from global hegemony, among the most erudite in the vast library of British decline studies is Ferguson, The Empire.

[24] Dyreson, ‘The Endless Olympic Bid’; Dyreson and Llewellyn, ‘Los Angeles Is the Olympic City.’

[25] The worldwide web has an entire site devoted solely to Olympic bid news: see http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/, acceessed 23 Sept. 2010. The postmodern version of the old Encyclopaedia Britannica, wikipedia, has extensive information on the quest to win the 2020 Olympics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics, accessed 15 Sept. 2010. An excellent analysis of this trend can be found in this issue: Cornelissen, ‘The Geopolitics of Global Aspiration’.

[26] Dyreson, Crafting Patriotism for Global Domination; Dyreson, ‘Reading American Readings of the Beijing Olympics’; Dyreson, ‘Preparing to Take Credit for China's Glory’.

[27] Reporting from the July 2010 meeting of the IOC in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Reuters news service revealed that the IOC wants to increase interest in the London games by ‘squeezing’ skateboarding onto the programme through the ruse of making it a new cycling ‘discipline’ since the deadline for adding new ‘sports’ has already passed. See http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKMOL43678820070704, accessed 23 Sept. 2010.

[28] See http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2016-olympic-bids/, accessed 23 Sept. 2010.

[29] Helene Elliott, ‘LA Olympic Leader Finds a New Purpose’, Los Angeles Times, 13 April 2007; Bill Dwyre, ‘Olympic Games’, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2010.

[30] For the official website of the Milan exposition see http://www.expo2015.org/?&lin=2, accessed 23 September 2010.