Title: The San Diego World's Fairs and southwestern memory, 1880-1940 /
Authors: Bokovoy, Matthew F., 1969-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ; Published in cooperation with the San Diego Historical Society,
Year: 2005
Subjects: San Diego (Calif.) History; California, Southern Civilization.
Abstract: Relates the histories of the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36, and how they represented Spanish culture and people, including information on their planning and their depiction of the Southwest in relation to ideas about race and ethnicity.
Contents: 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 -- Epilogue : Spanish fantasy heritage, social politics.