Entertaining elephants : animal agency and the business of the American circus / / Susan Nance
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| Autore: |
Nance Susan
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| Titolo: |
Entertaining elephants : animal agency and the business of the American circus / / Susan Nance
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 636.088/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Elephants - United States - History - 19th century |
| Captive elephants - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Animal welfare - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Circus animals - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Circus - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-288) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | They often lived lives of apparent desperation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Entertaining elephants |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0873-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825916003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Animals, history, culture.