The San Diego World's Fairs and southwestern memory, 1880-1940 /Matthew F. Bokovoy.

Bokovoy, Matthew F., 1969-

The San Diego World's Fairs and southwestern memory, 1880-1940 /Matthew F. Bokovoy. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Spanish heritage -- San Diego and the Spanish colonial inheritance -- The Panama-California Exposition, 1915-1916 --- Southern California gets the Panama Exposition -- Planning a southwestern exposition, 1915 -- "The peers of their white conquerors" -- "A heritage in history, forever" -- The California-Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936 -- The legacies of 1915: the San Diego Century-of-Progress Exposition, 1935-1936 -- "The answer is to be found in those yesteryears and tomorrows" -- Popular amusements and the fight for moral authority in Southern California -- Spanish fantasy heritage, social politics.



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Electronic Books.

T872 / .S263 2005