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050	0	0	_aGV1803 _b.A44 2012
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245	0	4	_aThe American circus / _cSusan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, Matthew Wittmann, editors.
260			_aNew York : _bBard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; _aNew Haven ; _aLondon : _bYale University Press, _c
300			_a459 pages : _billustrations (chiefly colored) ; _c28 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 437-448) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis -- The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann -- The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael -- American circus posters / Paul Stirton -- Shelburne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers -- The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff -- Circus music in America / Leon Botstein -- The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr. -- Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance -- Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle -- Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait -- The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey -- The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan -- Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf -- The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber -- Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams.
520			_aProvides a comprehensive history of the circus in the United States, from the adaptation of the European circus for an American audience to the present day, and includes the circus's connection with American culture.
650		0	_aCircus _zUnited States.
700	1		_aWeber, Susan, _d1954- _eeditor of compilation.
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