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Inventing the fiesta city : heritage and carnival in San Antonio / Laura Hernández-Ehrisman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Festivals--Texas--San Antonio.
- Festivals.
- San Antonio (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
- San Antonio (Tex.).
- Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Introduction : San Antonio's pedestrian rhetoric
- Battle of flowers : women and San Antonio's public culture, 1891-1900
- The Order of the Alamo : heritage and Spring Carnival, 1900-27
- Night in old San Antonio : the San Antonio Conservation Society, 1924-48
- Juan Q. Public : Reynolds Andricks and the Fiesta San Jacinto Association, 1950-70
- Rey Feo and the politics of inclusion, 1970-2000
- Fiesta rowdiness : la Semana de Carnaval.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283636674
- 1283636670
- 9780826343123
- 0826343120
- OCLC:
- 817819342
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