The best of all possible islands : Seville's universal exposition, the new Spain, and the new Europe / Richard Maddox.

Author
Maddox, Richard Frederick [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
Description
1 online resource (393 p.)

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Subject(s)
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Series
SUNY series in national identities [More in this series]
Summary note
Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-356) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Intro
  • 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
  • 15. Davids and Goliaths of the New World Order
  • 16. The Many Spains
  • PART V: Dispositions and Practices: The Sense of Freedom and the Politics of Daily Life
  • 17. Expo People and the Change in Spain
  • 18. Officials and Workers
  • 19. Visitors
  • 20. Renouncers and Resisters
  • PART VI: The Aftermath
  • 21. Closing Days and Parting Shots
  • 22. Wandering in the Wilderness: From Cartuja '93 to Sevilla Technopolis
  • 23. The Theme Park of Memory
  • 24. The Expo and the New Millennium
  • Notes to the Text
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • 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
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  • W
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ISBN
  • 0-7914-8489-0
  • 1-4237-3992-2
OCLC
  • 62751149
  • 62365148
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