001478674 000__ 04380nam\a22008535i\4500 001478674 001__ 1478674 001478674 003__ DE-B1597 001478674 005__ 20231026034951.0 001478674 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478674 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478674 008__ 220131t20222001mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478674 020__ $$a9780674042650 001478674 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674042650$$2doi 001478674 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574437 001478674 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478674 0410_ $$aeng 001478674 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478674 050_4 $$aE165$$b.R45 2010eb 001478674 072_7 $$aHIS036040$$2bisacsh 001478674 1001_ $$aReiss, Benjamin, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478674 24514 $$aThe Showman and the Slave :$$bRace, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America /$$cBenjamin Reiss. 001478674 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2022] 001478674 264_4 $$c©2001 001478674 300__ $$a1 online resource (281 p.) 001478674 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478674 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478674 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478674 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478674 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tFIGURES -- $$tAckrunvZedgments -- $$tIntroduction: The Dark Subject -- $$t1. DEATH AND DYING -- $$t1. Possession -- $$t2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- $$t3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- $$t4. Sacred and Profane -- $$t5. Culture Wars -- $$t6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- $$t7. Spectacle -- $$tII. RESURRECTION -- $$t8. Authenticity and Commodity -- $$t9. Exposure and Mastery -- $$t10. Erasure -- $$tIII. LIFE -- $$t11. A Speculative Biography -- $$tNote to the 2010 Printing -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001478674 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478674 520__ $$aReiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. 001478674 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478674 546__ $$aIn English. 001478674 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) 001478674 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in popular culture$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001478674 650_0 $$aDeath in popular culture$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001478674 650_0 $$aFreak shows$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001478674 650_0 $$aPopular culture$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001478674 650_0 $$aRacism in popular culture$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001478674 650_0 $$aWhites$$xRace identity$$zUnited States. 001478674 650_0 $$aWomen slaves$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 001478674 650_7 $$aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.$$2bisacsh 001478674 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478674 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478674 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478674 852__ $$bebk 001478674 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042650$$zOnline Access 001478674 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478674$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478674 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478674 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478674 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478674 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478674 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478674 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478674 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478674 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478674 980__ $$aBIB 001478674 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478674 982__ $$aEbook 001478674 983__ $$aOnline