"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915

"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" : Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915 / M. Elizabeth Boone.

Author/creator	Boone, Mary Elizabeth
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Description	xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Exhibitions--History. Art, Spanish--19th century --Exhibitions. Art, Spanish--20th century --Exhibitions. United States--Civilization --Spanish influences.

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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019024581
ISBN	9780271083315 (cloth)

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