Circus in the Long Nineteenth Century A Documentary History
Gillian Arrighi, Kate Holmes, Jenny Leigh Dupuis, Kim Baston, Jennifer Lemmer Posey, Betsy Golden Kellem, Mark St Leon, Laurence Senelick, Matthew McMahan, Aastha Gandhi
This collection of primary sources brings together a series of documents derived from archives, journals, newspapers, out-of-print books, memoirs, letters, and other written materials pertaining to…
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Circus in the Long Nineteenth Century A Documentary History
Gillian Arrighi, Kate Holmes, Jenny Leigh Dupuis, Kim Baston, Jennifer Lemmer Posey, Betsy Golden Kellem, Mark St Leon, Laurence Senelick, Matthew McMahan, Aastha Gandhi
This collection of primary sources brings together a series of documents derived from archives, journals, newspapers, out-of-print books, memoirs, letters, and other written materials pertaining to the circus during the long nineteenth century (1789-1919). Historians concur that the ‘modern’ circus emerged in London in the late-eighteenth century, following the entrepreneurial initiatives of Philip Astley (1742-1814). It soon spread to Scotland, Ireland, France, Russia, Scandinavia, and other regions of Europe.