| The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940 Contributor(s): Bokovoy, Matthew F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826336426 ISBN-13: 9780826336422 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2005 Annotation: In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 191516 and 193536. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 191516 celebrated Southwestern pluralism and gave rise to future promotional events including the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition of 1928, the Santa Fe Fiesta of the 1920s, and John Steven McGroartys The Mission Play. The California-Pacific International Exposition of 193536 promoted the Pacific Slope and the consumer-oriented society in the making during the 1930s. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego Worlds Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 907.479 |
| LCCN: 2005012546 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.42" W x 9.2" (1.44 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Diego, California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16 celebrated Southwestern pluralism and gave rise to future promotional events including the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition of 1928, the Santa Fe Fiesta of the 1920s, and John Steven McGroarty's The Mission Play. The California-Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36 promoted the Pacific Slope and the consumer-oriented society in the making during the 1930s. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bokovoy, Matthew F.: - Matthew Bokovoy, a San Diego native, lives and writes in Norman, Oklahoma. Bokovoy serves as co-editor of the Journal of San Diego History. |