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Author Maddox, Richard Frederick.

Title The best of all possible islands : Seville's universal exposition, the new Spain, and the new Europe / Richard Maddox
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 382 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in national identities
SUNY series in national identities.
Contents The Best of All Possible Islands -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Guidelines: Contemporary Ethnography and the New World Order in Spain -- 1. The Best of All Possible Islands and the Miraculous Year -- 2. Possible Expos: Academic Meanderings from Tradition to Modernity and Beyond -- 3. A Pocket History of the Liberalization of Modern Spain, with Observations about Its Relevance for an Understanding of Expo '92 -- 4. Relocating the Subject: Macroethnography and Cosmopolitan Liberalism -- PART II: Origins and Structures: The State, the Party, and the Expo
5. Royal Patronage of a Noble Tradition: Madrid, Santo Domingo, Washington, and Paris, 1976-1982 -- 6. Seville, the Socialist Party, and the Commissioner General, 1982-1987 -- 7. The Voyages and Visits of the Commissioner General -- 8. The Island World Takes Form -- PART III: Conjunctures and Conflicts: Technobureaucracy and the City -- 9. The Two-Headed Monster -- 10. The Monster and Seville -- 11. Here Comes Everybody -- 12. War, Stalemate, and Cultural Politics -- PART IV: Pavilions and Performances: The Expo as Cultural Olympics -- 13. Media Agon -- 14. Varieties of Europeanism
Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Official Documents and Publications Cited -- Newspapers Cited -- References Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1992 : Seville, Spain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88012967
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) fast
Subject HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Form Electronic book
Author Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1992 : Seville, Spain)
LC no. 2003059060
ISBN 1423739922
9781423739920
0791461211
9780791461211
9780791484890
0791484890