Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle

By Roslyn Poignant

Book Overview

In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of "all the uncivilized races in existence." In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030010247X
• ISBN13: 9780300102475
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.5"