E Pluribus Barnum : the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adams, Bluford
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1997]
Subjects:	Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891. Circus owners > United States > Biography. Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows > History. Circus > Social aspects > United States. Popular culture > United States.

Description
Item Description:	"Chapter 5 originally appeared in slightly altered form as 'A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires: The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses, 1874-1891', inAmerican Literary History, 8, number 1 (1996)"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	xv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0816626308 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0816626316 (pbk.)