Bibliography

Online bibliographies and websites for the World’s Fairs and the Column:

CSU Fresno’s World’s Fair Bibliography

This site merges their own work on special collections and the Smithsonian Libraries’ into a searchable bibliography

Smithsonian Bibliography Page

New York City Parks and Recreation Webpage for the Column

Preliminary Bibliography for the Column of Jerash and the 1964-5 World’s Fair:

While there is a fair amount of information about the 1964-5 World’s Fair, the Jordanian Pavilion and the Column of Jerash have received little attention. Starred works are most important.

Bletter, R. H. 1989. Remembering the future: the New York World’s Fair from 1939-1964. New York: Rizzoli.

Cotter, Bill and Bill Young.  2008. The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Creation and Legacy. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing.

* Katz, E. 2003. “It’s a Real World After All: The American-Israel Pavilion-Jordan Pavilion Controversy at the New York World’s Fair, 1964-1965.” American Jewish History 91.1: 129-155.

Rydell, R.W. 2000. Fair America: world’s fairs in the United States. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

* Samuel, L.R. 2007. The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press.

Time, Inc. Official Guide: 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair. Editors, Time-Life Books University of Michigan: 1964.

Introductory Bibliography for Jerash:

Ball, W. 2000. Rome in the East. London: 181-197.

Browning, I. 1982. Jerash and the Decapolis. London: Chatto & Windus.

Butcher, K. 2003. Roman Syria and the Near East. London: British Museum Press.

*Clarence S. Fisher and Chester C. McCown. 1929 – 1930 “Jerash-Gerasa 1930: A Preliminary Report of the First Two Campaigns of the Joint Expedition of Yale University and the American Schools of Oriental Research.” The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 11, 1-59.

Gates, Charles. 2003. Ancient cities: the archaeology of urban life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome. London: Routledge.

Kennedy, D. L. 2007. Gerasa and the Decapolis: a ‘virtual island’ in northwest Jordan. London: Duckworth.

*Kraeling, Carl H. 1938. Gerasa, city of the Decapolis; an account embodying the record of a joint excavation conducted by Yale university and the British school of archaeology in Jerusalem (1928-1930), and Yale university and the American schools of oriental research (1930-1931, 1933-1934). New Haven, Conn: American Schools of Oriental Research.

Nassar, Mohammad. 2004. The architectural elements and decoration at Gerasa (Jerash) during the Roman period: (typological and comparative studies). Berlin: Mensch & Buch.

Raja, Rubina. 2012. Urban development and regional identity in the eastern Roman provinces, 50 BC-AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press.

Segal, Arthur, and Arthur Segal. 1997. From function to monument: urban landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria, and Provincia Arabia. Oxford: Oxbow Books.