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The circus age : culture & society under the American big top / Janet M. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Janet M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circus--Social aspects--United States.
- Circus.
- Circus--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire.
- Contents:
- Circus day
- The circus as a historical and cultural process
- Spectacular labor
- Respectable female nudity
- From the king of beasts to clowns in drag
- Instruct the minds of all classes
- Legacies : from Las Vegas to the bridges of Madison County.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890872746
- 9780807861493
- 0807861499
- OCLC:
- 476268485
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