Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma

by Susan Nance

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 the 1880s, consumers, the media, zoos, circuses and taxidermists, and (unknowingly) Jumbo himself, transformed the elephant from an orphan of the global ivory trade and zoo captive into a distracting international celebrity. Citizens on two continents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137562064
• ISBN13: 9781137562067
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"