Empress San Francisco : the Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition / Abigail M. Markwyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markwyn, Abigail M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.).

Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Group identity--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Group identity.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Ethnic identity.

Chinese Americans.

Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco--Ethnic identity.

Japanese Americans.

Women--California--San Francisco--Social conditions.

Women.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

San Francisco (Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.)--Moral conditions.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social life and customs.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).

Exhibitions--California--San Francisco.

Exhibitions.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Genre:

World's fairs.

Physical Description:

xiii, 335 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Summary:

When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco's particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world's fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre-World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim.

Contents:

The spectacle of the fair

Uniting San Francisco

Claiming their place

Economic partner, exotic other

Sex and other vices at the fair

Performing work

Women take the political stage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780803243842 ;