Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff 's first-of-its-kind study reveals changing consumer patterns, notions of domesticity and progress, and anxieties about the modernization of society.
Graff examines a.
University Press Of Florida Disposing of modernity: the archaeology of garbage and consumerism during chicago's 1893 world's fair, hardcover/rebecca graff
