Agusti Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Gebundenes Buch

The Land of the Hunger Artists

Beschreibung

From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agustà Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.

Autor

Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), ICREA Acadèmia Fellow, and director of the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (iHC) at the UAB.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781009379588
• ISBN-10: 1009379585
• Artikelnr.: 68715022