{"product_id":"the-humbugs-of-the-world-paperback-9781108044356","title":"The Humbugs of the World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044356","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Humbugs of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginally published in 1866, this book explores somes of the most bizarre hoaxes, adverts and scams of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eP. T. Barnum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044356, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEbenezer Scrooge's cry of 'Humbug!' is well known throughout the English-speaking world. But what did he mean? In this entertaining book, P. T. Barnum (1810–91), defines 'humbug' as 'glittering appearances by which to suddenly arrest public attention, and attract the public eye and ear'. A showman himself and the creator of 'The Greatest Show on Earth', Barnum was famous for his own tricks, and describes here some of the most fascinating and outrageous examples perpetrated in his time. He explores the cases of Mr Warren, who wrote an advertisement in enormous letters on the pyramids of Giza, and the Fox daughters, who caused a stir among spiritualists in New York when they held seances with tapping spirits - in fact their own cracking knee joints. First published in 1866, this tour of Victorian humbug, fraud, superstition and quackery will appeal to social historians and readers interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePublisher's note\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject\u003cbr\u003e 2. Definition of the word humbug\u003cbr\u003e 3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug\u003cbr\u003e 4. Old Grizzly Adams\u003cbr\u003e 5. The golden pigeons\u003cbr\u003e 6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon\u003cbr\u003e 7. Pease's horehound candy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Brandreth's pills\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress\u003cbr\u003e 10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs\u003cbr\u003e 11. The 'Ballot-test'\u003cbr\u003e 12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'\u003cbr\u003e 13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table\u003cbr\u003e 14. Spiritual photographing\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'Banner of light'\u003cbr\u003e 16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food\u003cbr\u003e 19. Adulteration in drinks\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Peter Funks and their functions\u003cbr\u003e 21. Lottery sharks\u003cbr\u003e 22. Another lottery humbug\u003cbr\u003e 23. A California coal mine\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug\u003cbr\u003e 25. The tulipomania\u003cbr\u003e 26. John Bull's great money humbug\u003cbr\u003e 27. Business humbugs\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination\u003cbr\u003e 29. The consumptive remedy\u003cbr\u003e 30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost\u003cbr\u003e 32. The moon hoax\u003cbr\u003e 33. The miscegenation hoax\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses\u003cbr\u003e 35. Haunted houses\u003cbr\u003e 36. Magical humbugs\u003cbr\u003e 37. Witchcraft\u003cbr\u003e 38. Charms and incantations\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles\u003cbr\u003e 40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'\u003cbr\u003e 41. The diamond necklace\u003cbr\u003e 42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician\u003cbr\u003e 43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV\u003cbr\u003e Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions\u003cbr\u003e 45. A religious humbug on John Bull\u003cbr\u003e 46. The first humbug in the world\u003cbr\u003e 47. Heathen humbugs\u003cbr\u003e 48. Modern heathen humbugs\u003cbr\u003e 49. 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