Author: Andrea Ringer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.
Circus World
Author: Barry Longyear
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
ISBN: 9781504030045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus--the remaining descendants of the original circus--must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
ISBN: 9781504030045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus--the remaining descendants of the original circus--must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.
Circus World
Author: Andrea Ringer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.
Circus
Author: Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher: London : Elek
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An illustrated historical account of the circus's origins and development and of its lore and legends, describing acts and performers from the Circus Maximus to Madison Square Garden.
Publisher: London : Elek
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An illustrated historical account of the circus's origins and development and of its lore and legends, describing acts and performers from the Circus Maximus to Madison Square Garden.
World of Darkness
Author: Christopher Howard
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565043176
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Something wicked this way comes, even in the World of Darkness.
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565043176
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Something wicked this way comes, even in the World of Darkness.
Lowly Worm Joins the Circus
Author:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780689816253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Lowly Worm discovers that being a circus performer is not as wonderful as he thought it would be--especially if it means giving up your family.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780689816253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Lowly Worm discovers that being a circus performer is not as wonderful as he thought it would be--especially if it means giving up your family.
Circus Maximus
Author: Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815738625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting events Brazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, building large, new stadiums in cities that have little use for them anymore. The projected cost of Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games is estimated to be as high as $30 billion, much of it coming from the public trough. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Andrew Zimbalist tackles the claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London, Rio, and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for future host cities that will bear the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815738625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting events Brazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, building large, new stadiums in cities that have little use for them anymore. The projected cost of Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games is estimated to be as high as $30 billion, much of it coming from the public trough. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Andrew Zimbalist tackles the claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London, Rio, and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for future host cities that will bear the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.
Images from the World Between
Author: Donna Gustafson
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262572415
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The circus as a focal point of twentieth-century American art.
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262572415
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The circus as a focal point of twentieth-century American art.
Ringlingville USA
Author: Jerold W. Apps
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020355X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ringlingville USA is the story of seven brothers who started with next to nothing and became the most famous circus family ever known. This is an extensively illustrated history with many never before published photos. This first history of the Ringling Circus in over fifty years recounts the hard work, business savvy, and entrepreneurship of the Ringling Brothers as they created the largest, most famous circus in the world. Author Jerry Apps presents a comprehensive history of the family business while at the same time recreating the sights and sounds of the circus at the turn of the century.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020355X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ringlingville USA is the story of seven brothers who started with next to nothing and became the most famous circus family ever known. This is an extensively illustrated history with many never before published photos. This first history of the Ringling Circus in over fifty years recounts the hard work, business savvy, and entrepreneurship of the Ringling Brothers as they created the largest, most famous circus in the world. Author Jerry Apps presents a comprehensive history of the family business while at the same time recreating the sights and sounds of the circus at the turn of the century.
Aging
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
How to Draw Wisconsins Sights and Symbols
Author: Stephanie True Peters
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823961061
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This book explains how to draw some of Wisconsin's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and an old-fashioned circus wagon from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823961061
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This book explains how to draw some of Wisconsin's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and an old-fashioned circus wagon from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo.