Entertaining Elephants Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus

Name: Entertaining Elephants Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus
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ISBN: 9781421408293

ISBN-10: 1421408295

ISBN-13: 9781421408293

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Nance

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Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, health, and cognition to interpret the historical record, examining how both circus people and…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Susan Nance is assistant professor of U.S. history at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Turning the Circus Inside Out



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


Essay on Sources


Index