Empress San Francisco - The Pacific Rim, Great West, California At Panama Pacific

Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. 
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Spectacle of the Fair

2. Uniting San Francisco

3. Claiming Their Place

4. Economic Partner, Exotic Other

5. Sex and Other Vices at the Fair

6. Performing Work

7. Women Take the Political Stage

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

About the author

Abigail M. Markwyn is a professor of history at Carroll University. She is the coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World’s Fairs.

Summary

Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail M Markwyn, Abigail M. Markwyn
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2021
• EAN: 9781496224903
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2490-3
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous