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Entertaining elephants [electronic resource] : animal agency and the business of the American circus / Susan Nance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Animals, history, culturePublication details: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages :) illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781421408736
  • 1421408732
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 636.088/8 23
LOC classification:
  • QL737.P98 N36 2913
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.

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.

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