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Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Animals, History, Culture SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421408736
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entertaining ElephantsDDC classification:
  • 636.088/8
LOC classification:
  • QL737.P98 -- N36 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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