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Entertaining elephants : animal agency and the business of the American circus / Susan Nance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nance, Susan.
- Series:
- Animals, history, culture.
- Animals, history, culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elephants--United States--History--19th century.
- Elephants.
- Captive elephants--United States--History--19th century.
- Captive elephants.
- Animal welfare--United States--History--19th century.
- Animal welfare.
- Circus animals--United States--History--19th century.
- Circus animals.
- Circus--United States--History--19th century.
- Circus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
- Contents:
- Why elephants in the early republic?
- Becoming an elephant "actor"
- Learning to take direction
- Punishing bull elephants
- Herd management in the gilded age
- Going off script
- Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0873-2
- OCLC:
- 834604123
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