... poor illustrations of spectators performances performers patrons audiences human exhibitions human displays in august 1879, the press reported that Farini’s Friendly Zulus had been capitalizing on their London sojourn by bartering for British brides. On one occasion, with the aid...

...This chapter considers individual and group experience in relation to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Reading through the historical and memory sources available and using the photographic evidence, it becomes possible to reconstruct, in some detail, how patrons at the Fair spent their time...

...Jerome had no choice but to cede control of his works to his readers and patrons. In some cases, this loss of control began even before he started work on a new project. Like some of his contemporaries Jerome seems to have attempted in various ways to resist the demands of his audience. Ultimately...

.... He overcame these obstacles only with the assistance of new and powerful patrons, and by harnessing the exceptional resources that made Rome a vital center of scholarship, especially in the fields of antiquarian and Oriental studies. Kircher's investigations of Egypt and the hieroglyphs, culminating...

..., these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe's social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory...

..., concert arrangements, tours, and musicians' unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players....

...This chapter focuses on the contracts of alchemists with their patrons. It explains that contracts were only agreed upon after addressing patrons' concerns about practitioners' legitimacy and establishing some common expectations. However, the chapter suggests that the solutions that alchemists...

...The chapter examines the routes to careers in science in mid-Victorian England–the ways in which reputations were made, the roles of patrons, and the practice of pluralism (that is, the accumulation of supplementary examining, cataloguing, consulting and other contracts in order to make a middle...

...This chapter identifies the small group of lawyers, interest groups, and patrons who, in the 1970s and 1980s, sought to use First Amendment arguments to defeat campaign finance regulation. Entrepreneurial lawyers developed some of the arguments necessary to create new constitutional law...

... patrons who financed these efforts, and the networks through which they coordinated strategy and held the Court accountable. Drawing from interviews, public records, and archival materials, the book chronicles how these groups borrowed a litigation strategy pioneered by the NAACP to dismantle racial...