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Judith Berg Sobré. San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. (Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, number 15.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 264. $29.95.
As parades and other common public celebrations become increasingly popular as topics in U.S. cultural studies, there will doubtless be many more studies like Judith Berg Sobré's book. These new monographs build on the work of scholars who have examined parades in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Susan Davis's Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (1986), which examined parades in antebellum Philadelphia, broke ground in this field. Among other things, the newer works usually explain the goals of the organizations who were behind these celebrations. Parade makers often sought some sort of economic benefits for themselves as well as a perceived cultural or educational benefit for their audiences. While more recent books often focus more on social and cultural analysis, most of them provide a basic history of the city in question during the time period in question.	1
Sobré's monograph is rare in that it succeeds in doing many of these things very well. In the opening two chapters, Sobré provides an excellent history of San Antonio before 1900, in which she describes how the city grew from a small town of a few hundred people to the largest city in Texas with a population of over 50,000. Sobré also effectively describes the physical environment in which nineteenth-century parades took place as well.	. . .

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