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Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1. Animals and antiquity ; Lesson 2. Animals as myth and symbol ; Lesson 3. Human and nonhuman ; Lesson 4. Animals and labor ; Lesson 5. Human predation-hunting ; Lesson 6. Animals employed as story and entertainment ; Lesson 7. Animals as data ; Lesson 8. Animals and modern consumerism -- Assessment Options -- Enrichment Materials.

Susan Nance investigates modernity for animals through the case of Jumbo the elephant in the 1880s. Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism

Why elephants in the early republic? -- Becoming an elephant "actor" -- Learning to take direction -- Punishing bull elephants -- Herd management in the gilded age -- Going off script -- Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now

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 acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized performance in America until the Great Depression. According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants and im