Author : Fred Nadis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0813541212
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.