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The Spanish Element in Our Nationality": Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915

The Spanish Element in Our Nationality": Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915

Boone, M. Elizabeth

Hardcover

Art History19th Century United States HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 027108331X
ISBN13: 9780271083315
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 9 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

The Spanish Element in Our Nationality delves beneath the traditional English-only narrative of U.S. history, using Spain's participation in a series of international exhibitions to illuminate more fully the close and contested relationship between these two countries.

Written histories invariably record the Spanish financing of Columbus's historic voyage of 1492, but few consider Spain's continuing influence on the development of U.S. national identity. In this book, M. Elizabeth Boone investigates the reasons for this problematic memory gap by chronicling a series of Spanish displays at international fairs. Studying the exhibition of paintings, the construction of ephemeral architectural space, and other manifestations of visual culture, Boone examines how Spain sought to position itself as a contributor to U.S. national identity, and how the United States--in comparison to other nations in North and South America--subverted and ignored Spain's messages, making it possible to marginalize and ultimately obscure Spain's relevance to the history of the United States.

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