Expo 58 : between utopia and reality
"The purpose of this book, with its focus on the multitude of players and participants in Expo 58, is to delve back once more into the context of this amazing spectacle, to open a window on the history of Belgium at the end of the 1950s. The book is an endeavour to decipher how an event that was simultaneously political, economical, social and cultural, in fact, a colossal enterprise, became the witness of its period. A mirror of a society in transition, Expo 58 reflected not only the economic, technological and urban modernity that heralded the prosperity of the Golden Sixties, but also the permanent nature of traditional social systems: the relationships between the sexes, between the colonisers and the colonised, and between the generations."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2008
Brussels City Archives : State Archives in Belgium : Éditions Racine, Brussels, ©2008