Lori Merish, Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States by Laura Visser-Maessen

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Spectacle and Spectatorship at the Nineteenth-Century American Racetrack by Natalie Zacek

“…This paper argues that, in the antebellum United States, many people attended horse races at least as much from a desire to produce and consume spectacle as from a fascination with the sport itself. …”
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