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Author Childress, Micah D

Title Circus Life Performing and Laboring under America's Big Top Shows, 1830-1920
Published Chicago : University of Tennessee Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (265 p.)
Series Sports and Popular Culture Series
Sports and Popular Culture Series
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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Circus performers.
Circus workers.
Circus -- Social aspects
Circus workers
Circus -- Social aspects
Circus performers
Zirkus
PERFORMING ARTS / General
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781621903956
1621903958