Behemoth
Subtitle: the history of the elephant in America
By: Ronald B. Tobias
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780062244857
Subjects: Captive elephants; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Seeing the elephant; title: The unfortunate man who won an elephant in a raffle; title: Race to the White House; title: The voyages of Columbus; title: Romeo and Juliet, an American tragedy; title: Amok; title: Farming with elephants; title: Jumbo nation; title: Jumbo saves the Brooklyn Bridge; title: The skeleton and the manikin; title: White elephants; title: Elephant bizarre; title: Born in the USA; title: Matriarch; title: AC/DC; title: Circus day, Butte, Montana, 23 August 1900; title: Elephant baseball; title: A lynching in Tennessee; title: How Jumbo got his shnozz; title: Secret agents; title: Seeing the digital elephant..