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Postcard of the Annam Tower built in Marseilles (France) for the 1906 Colonial Exhibition. A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick Paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an Envelope and Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ

A colonial exhibition is a type of international exhibition that was intended to boost trade and bolster popular support for the various colonial empires during the New Imperialism period, which started in the 1880s with the scramble for Africa. Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the See Colony and Colonization for examples of colonialism which do not refer to Western colonialism New Imperialism refers to the colonial expansion adopted by Europe 's powers and later Japan and the United States, during the 19th The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa, was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New The 1924 British Empire Exhibition was one, as was the successful 1931 Exposition coloniale in Paris, which lasted six months and attracted 34 million visitors. The British Empire Exhibition was a Colonial exhibition held at Wembley, Middlesex in 1924 and 1925 The Paris Colonial Expostion (or " Exposition coloniale internationale " International Colonial Exposition was a six-month Colonial Exhibition held

Germany and Portugal also staged colonial exhibitions, as well as Belgium, which had a Foire coloniale as late as 1948. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Human zoos were featured in some of these exhibitions, such as in the Parisian 1931 exhibition. Human zoos (also called "ethnological expositions" or " Negro Villages" were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of human beings usually in a "natural" ^[1]

Colonial exhibitions

Exhibitions which may be described as colonial exhibitions include:

• Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia (1866)
• Intercolonial Exhibition (1870)
• Intercolonial Exhibition (1875)
• Intercolonial Exhibition (1876)
• Internationale Koloniale en Uitvoerhandel Tentoonstelling (1883)
• Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886)
• Exposition internationale et coloniale (1894)
• Exposição Insular e Colonial Portuguesa (1894)
• Indo China Exposition Française et Internationale (1902)
• United States, Colonial and International Exposition (1902)
• Exposition coloniale (1906)
• Franco-British Exhibition (1908)
• Koloniale Tentoonstelling (1914)
• International Exhibition of Rubber and Other Tropical Products (1921)
• Festival of Empire (1911)
• Exposition nationale coloniale (1922)
• British Empire Exhibition (1924)
• Exposition internationale coloniale, maritime et d'art flamand (1930)
• Exposition coloniale internationale (1931)
• Paris Colonial Exposition (1931)
• Exposição Colonial Portuguesa (1934)
• Empire Exhibition (1936)
• Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938
• Deutsche Kolonial Ausstellung (1939)
• Exposição do Mundo Português (1940)
• Foire coloniale (1948)

See also

• Colonialism
• Human zoo
• List of world's fairs

References

1. ^ "From human zoos to colonial apotheoses: the era of exhibiting the Other" by Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, and Sandrine Lemaire

External links

• Exposition Coloniale of Paris 1931 photographs