| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Linda Frost. Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture 1850–1877. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 241. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.

This generation has been a boom time for the study of the freak show. For years Leslie Fiedler's seminal 1978 study Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self stood alone as the sole scholarly study of the subject. Beginning in the late 1980s, new work started to appear in greater and greater profusion. Scholars such as Robert Bogdan, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Rachel Adams have done particularly significant foundational work to locate the history of the freak show within a set of useful theoretical frameworks so that we can better understand what happens when people put other people on exhibit. Bogdan's and Garland-Thomson's pioneering work has emerged from the burgeoning field of disability studies, which has helped us to historicize the shifting idea of the "normal" and show how it answers different cultural needs, while Adams's project combines history and self-referential historiography, as she shows how the freak show developed over time, incorporating former versions of itself along the way.

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