Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Inventing America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial 15
7. 2 Defining (and Defending) Spain in Barcelona and Paris, 1888 and 1889 49
8. 3 Marginalizing Spain (and Embracing Cuba) at the 1893 Columbian Exposition 87
9. 4 Reasserting Spain in America at the 1910 Centennial Exhibitions 121
10. 5 Using Spain to Ignore Mexicans at the 1915 California Fairs 155
11. Notes 193
12. Bibliography 205
13. Index 223