Author: Richard F. SelcerPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107978
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.
Olympians of the Sawdust Circle
Author: William L. SloutPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809513102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.
Civil War America, 1850 To 1875
Author: Richard F. SelcerPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107978
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Includes the society's Annual report.
Bulletin
Author: The Big Tent
Author: Gregory J. RenoffPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820344370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region’s upheavals. The Big Tent relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits. Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.
The Life of Dan Rice
Author: Maria Ward BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
M-U-M.
Author: Battlefield Atlas of Price's Missouri Expedition Of 1864
Author: Charles CollinsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719088947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This 230 page atlas is divided into seven parts. Part I, Missouri's Divided Loyalties, and Part II, Missouri's Five Seasons, provide an overview of Missouri's history from the initial settlement of the Louisiana Purchase Territories through the opening years of the American Civil War. The remaining parts cover the Confederate plan, the Confederate movement into Missouri and the Union reaction, the Confederate retreat and Union pursuit into Kansas, and the final Confederate escape back into Arkansas. The atlas has a standard format with the map to left and the narrative to the right. Each narrative closes with two or more primary source vignettes. These vignettes provide an overview of the events shown on the map and discussed in the narrative from the perspective of persons who participated in the events. In most cases there are two vignettes with the first from a person loyal to the Union and the second from a person who supported the southern cause. A few narratives have two or more vignettes from only the Union side. This was done to emphasize disagreements and struggles among senior leaders to establish a common course of action. Map 25, Decision at the Little Blue River, is a good example and the three vignettes emphasize the disagreement between Maj. Gen. Samuel Curtis and his subordinate, Maj. Gen. James Blunt on where to locate the Union defensive line.
Fifty Years in Theatrical Management
Author: Michael Bennett LeavittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Author: