Автор: Susan Nance

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the ‘East–witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and a …

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attem …

The concept of ‘modernity’ is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In …

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "East–witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers …

How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry.Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus …

Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US history A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in coloniali …