Empress San Francisco
Subtitle: the Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
By: Abigail M. Markwyn
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780803243842
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnic identity; Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.); Chinese Americans; Ethnic relations; Group identity; Japanese Americans; Social conditions; Moral conditions; Women; History
Other titles: Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The spectacle of the fair; title: Uniting San Francisco; title: Claiming their place; title: Economic partner, exotic other; title: Sex and other vices at the fair; title: Performing work; title: Women take the political stage.