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Author Hernandez-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972-

Title Inventing the fiesta city [electronic resource] : heritage and carnival in San Antonio / Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman.

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 238 p. : ill., ports.
Note "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.)
Festivals -- Texas -- San Antonio.
San Antonio (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0826343104 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826343109
9780826343123 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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