For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America by Peter Burke, Peter Benes

For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America

Peter Burke, Peter Benes

528 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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By the 1740s, colonists living in North America began to encounter scores of itinerant performers from England and Europe. These show people--acrobats, wire dancers, tumblers, trick riders, painters, dancing-masters, waxworks proprietors, healers,...

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