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.
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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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 318 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 318pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed. Illus.; endnotes; index.
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