Mining the time-space matrix

@article{Handler2016MiningTT,
  title={Mining the time-space matrix},
  author={Richard Handler},
  journal={HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory},
  year={2016},
  volume={6},
  pages={293 - 316}
}
  • R. Handler
  • Published 1 July 2016
  • History, Sociology
  • HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
This article examines turn-of-the-twentieth-century US world’s fairs and the postage stamps that were issued in their honor. The fairs celebrated the progress of industrial civilization, in part by anchoring themselves to a historical origin point (such as Columbus’ voyages), and the post office designed the accompanying stamps to commemorate a historical story deemed to be nationally significant. Both the origin point and the history associated with it were located within a time-space matrix… 
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