[PDF] Hawkers And Walkers In Early America Strolling Peddlers Preachers Lawyers Doctors Players And Others From The Beginning To The Civil War By Richardson Wright eBook

Author : Richardson Little Wright
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Peddlers
ISBN :

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Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.

Author : John Hanners
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879725877

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Unearths the personalities and experiences of touring and itinerant popular entertainers in 19th-century America. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, describes life and work on the showboats, among the small towns, and in the big cities; and the financial difficulties, the physical dangers, the social prejudices, and cultural barriers. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674042654

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In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. In piecing together the fragmentary and conflicting evidence of the event, Reiss paints a picture of people looking at history, at the human body, at social class, at slavery, at performance, at death, and always--if obliquely--at themselves. At the same time, he reveals how deeply an obsession with race penetrated different facets of American life, from public memory to private fantasy. Concluding the book is a piece of historical detective work in which Reiss attempts to solve the puzzle of Heth's real identity before she met Barnum. His search yields a tantalizing connection between early mass culture and a slave's subtle mockery of her master.

Author : Richard Steven Street
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804738804

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Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.