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Renoff considers the issues of race, class, gender, religion, economics, cultural content, violence and rowdyism, regional identity, local self-interest, and audience behavior as it relates to the traveling circus. A reader comes away from the book with a good sense of the circus experience as seen from a variety of perspectives: those of local audiences, retailers, and government officials on the one hand and circus owners, promoters, and performers on the other hand. The Big Tent is an important contribution to the historiographies of the South, the circus, and American popular culture. --Steve Goodson, author of Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930

Superb and revelatory.-- Journal of American History

Superb and revelatory.--Journal of American History

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Gregory J. Renoff is an assistant professor of history at Drury University.

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