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Author Davis, Janet M

Title The circus age : culture & society under the American big top / Janet M. Davis
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 329 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. It casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Circus -- Social aspects -- United States
Circus -- United States -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Circus.
Circus
Circus -- Social aspects
Zirkus
Cirkus -- Historia -- Förenta staterna.
Sekelskiftet 1900.
Kropp.
Offentlighet.
Cirkus -- sociala aspekter -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807861499
9780807861493
9780807827246
080782724X
9780807853993
0807853992