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"The Spanish element in our nationality" : Spain and America at the world's fairs and centennial celebrations, 1876-1915 / M. Elizabeth Boone.
LIBRA E169.1 .B745 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boone, Mary Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exhibitions--History.
- Exhibitions.
- History.
- Art, Spanish--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Spanish.
- Art, Spanish--20th century--Exhibitions.
- United States--Civilization--Spanish influences.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- Civilization--Spanish influences.
- Genre:
- History.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Uses Spanish participation at a series of international exhibitions to explore the transnational histories of Spain, the United States, Europe, and America in order to understand how and why the Spanishness of U.S. national identity has been subverted, marginalized, and largely forgotten"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Inventing America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial
- Defining (and defending) Spain in Barcelona and Paris, 1888 and 1889
- Marginalizing Spain (and embracing Cuba) at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
- Reasserting Spain in America at the 1910 centennial exhibitions
- Using Spain to ignore Mexicans at the 1915 California fairs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271083315
- 027108331X
- OCLC:
- 1090684554
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