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San Antonio on Parade
Judith Berg Sobre
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Description for San Antonio on Parade
In this look at late-19th century festivals in San Antonio, the author brings an art historian's sensibility to accounts of the pageantry, parades and festive events that typified a city welcoming settlers into a community that valued their individuality even while it taught them a new identity. Series: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 53 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; ASZP; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century and a half. San Antonio has partied well. In this look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in San Antonio, Judith Berg Sobre brings an art historian's sensibility to accounts of the pageantry, parades, and festive events that typified a city welcoming settlers into a community that valued their individuality even while it taught them a new identity. Six historic festivals provide windows into the culture of this polyglot city the Fourth of July, Juneteenth, Diez y Sets Columbus Day, the German Volksfests, and the Battle of ... Read more
Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century and a half. San Antonio has partied well. In this look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in San Antonio, Judith Berg Sobre brings an art historian's sensibility to accounts of the pageantry, parades, and festive events that typified a city welcoming settlers into a community that valued their individuality even while it taught them a new identity. Six historic festivals provide windows into the culture of this polyglot city the Fourth of July, Juneteenth, Diez y Sets Columbus Day, the German Volksfests, and the Battle of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585442225
SKU
V9781585442225
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Reviews for San Antonio on Parade
... an important contribution to the literature of urban and ethnic studies. - Kenneth B. Ragsdale