Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus.
Nance, Susan.
Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Animals, History, Culture Series . - Animals, History, Culture Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning the Circus Inside Out -- 1 Why Elephants in the Early Republic? -- 2 Becoming an Elephant "Actor" -- 3 Learning to Take Direction -- 4 Punishing Bull Elephants -- 5 Herd Management in the Gilded Age -- 6 Going Off Script -- 7 Animal Cultures Lost in the Circus, Then and Now -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
9781421408736
Electronic books.
QL737.P98 -- N36 2013eb
636.088/8
Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Animals, History, Culture Series . - Animals, History, Culture Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning the Circus Inside Out -- 1 Why Elephants in the Early Republic? -- 2 Becoming an Elephant "Actor" -- 3 Learning to Take Direction -- 4 Punishing Bull Elephants -- 5 Herd Management in the Gilded Age -- 6 Going Off Script -- 7 Animal Cultures Lost in the Circus, Then and Now -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
9781421408736
Electronic books.
QL737.P98 -- N36 2013eb
636.088/8