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020 _a9781421408736
020 _a1421408732
020 _z9781421408293 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
020 _z1421408295 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aQL737.P98
_bN36 2913
082 0 0 _a636.088/8
_223
100 1 _aNance, Susan.
245 1 0 _aEntertaining elephants
_h[electronic resource] :
_banimal agency and the business of the American circus /
_cSusan Nance.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bThe Johns Hopkins University Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 294 pages :)
_billustrations ;
490 0 _aAnimals, history, culture
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
505 0 _aWhy 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCircus
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aCircus animals
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAnimal welfare
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aElephants
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421408736/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32348
_d32348