...The author, raised by a single mother who worked as a secretary, documents in this chapter her struggles to earn a college degree while also working full-time in an office. Continuing on to pursue a doctoral degree in art history, she finds her passion exploring the visual and cultural history...

... Brothers Circus Hagenbeck Wallace Circus training methods bears Coney Island leopards animal processes of captivity animal keepers Bostock Frank clowns paternalistic circus industry as periodicals cultural history celebrity animal trainers circus families From the single circus day...

... substantive attention to the subject. This volume faithfully seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible yet provocative new insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history....

..., anthropology, musicology, and cultural history. It lays out the argument, methodology, and disciplinary sources and explains the criteria for the selection of the specific case studies, linking the diversity of those case studies to the diversity of methodological tools necessary for their analysis...