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This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the Asian premiere of Zóbel: The Future of the Past, exhibited at Ayala Museum from September 14, 2024 to January 26, 2025.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.
“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 ephemer...
This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.