History from the Howdah: A New Methodology for Animal History

Review of Susan Nance, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus

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  • Daniel Vandersommers Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9961

Abstract

Susan Nance, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 294 pp. $55.00 hb.

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Author Biography

Daniel Vandersommers, Ohio State University

Daniel Vandersommers is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at The Ohio State University.  He is completing a dissertation entitled Laboratories, Lyceums, Lords: The National Zoological Park and the Transformation of Humanism in Nineteenth-Century America. This project, by closely examining the first decades of the National Zoo, links intellectual and cultural history with environmental history and the history of science, arguing that the public zoo movement and the rise of popular zoology significantly challenged common notions about animals and their place in the world.

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Published

2014-02-02

How to Cite

Vandersommers, Daniel. 2014. “History from the Howdah: A New Methodology for Animal History: Review of Susan Nance, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus”. Humanimalia 5 (2):141-47. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9961.

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014)

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Reviews

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