| Description |
491 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Contents |
Seeing the elephant -- The unfortunate man who won an elephant in a raffle -- Race to the White House -- The voyages of Columbus -- Romeo and Juliet, an American tragedy -- Amok -- Farming with elephants -- Jumbo nation -- Jumbo saves the Brooklyn Bridge -- The skeleton and the manikin -- White elephants -- Elephant bizarre -- Born in the USA -- Matriarch -- AC/DC -- Circus day, Butte, Montana, 23 August 1900 -- Elephant baseball -- A lynching in Tennessee -- How Jumbo got his shnozz -- Secret agents -- Seeing the digital elephant.. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-491). |
| Summary |
Tobias has written a comprehensive history of the elephant in America. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism; and accorded the rights of American citizenship, including the right to vote and the right to provide testimony under oath. They have incurred brutal punishments when convicted of human crimes.As tragic as it is comic, Tobias traces this animal's indelible footprint on American culture. |
| Subject |
Captive elephants -- United States -- History.
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| Added Title |
Elephant Research Foundation Library.
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Jeheskel (Hezy) Shoshani Library Endowed Collection.
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| Standard No. |
813286742 841482013 859909843 868263316 |
| ISBN |
9780062244857 |
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006224485X |
| OCLC # |
852031125 |
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