Wonder Shows

Wonder Shows
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780813541211
ISBN-13 : 0813541212
Rating : 4/5 (212 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wonder Shows by : Fred Nadis

Download or read book Wonder Shows written by Fred Nadis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle science” who revealed science and technology to the public in awe-inspiring fashion. The book provides an innovative synthesis of the history of performance with a wider study of culture, science, and religion from the antebellum period to the present.

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