| Description |
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : San Antonio's pedestrian rhetoric -- Battle of flowers : women and San Antonio's public culture, 1891-1900 -- The Order of the Alamo : heritage and Spring Carnival, 1900-27 -- Night in old San Antonio : the San Antonio Conservation Society, 1924-48 -- Juan Q. Public : Reynolds Andricks and the Fiesta San Jacinto Association, 1950-70 -- Rey Feo and the politics of inclusion, 1970-2000 -- Fiesta rowdiness : la Semana de Carnaval. |
| Summary |
The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.)
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Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas) |
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Festivals -- Texas -- San Antonio.
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Festivals. |
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Texas -- San Antonio. |
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972- Inventing the fiesta city. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007042908 |
| ISBN |
9780826343123 (electronic book) |
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0826343120 (electronic book) |
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1283636670 |
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9781283636674 |
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6613949132 |
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9786613949134 |
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0826343104 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780826343109 |
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