Circus Life Performing and Laboring under America's Big Top Shows, 1830-1920.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Childress, Micah D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Tennessee Press, 2018.
Series:Sports and Popular Culture Series.
Subjects:
Circus performers.
Circus workers.
Circus > Social aspects.
Cirque > Personnel.
Cirque > Aspect social.
Circus workers
Circus > Social aspects
Circus performers
Zirkus
PERFORMING ARTS / General
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Brian M. Ingrassia
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Circus Becomes Respectable: Accommodation and Change in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 2: The Biggest Day of the Year
  • Chapter 3: Working in the Circus
  • Chapter 4: Obstacles and Opportunities
  • Chapter 5: Amusement Barons or Captains of Entertainment?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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