Love, war, and circuses : the age-old relationship between elephants and humans / Eric Scigliano

Includes bibliographical references

Machine generated contents note: I. Beginnings -- 1 Human Nature and Elephant Nature 11 -- 2 Mammoth Riches 20 -- 3 Overchill, Overkill, Over-ill, and Over the Hill 34 -- 4 Elephants in America 47 -- II. Worship and Delight -- 5 Dances with Elephants 61 -- 6 The Elephant Treasure 75 -- 7 The Elephant-Headed God 88 -- 8 The Land of the White Elephant 98 -- III. In War and Pieces -- 9 Warriors and Giants 117 -- 10 Blood and Circuses 128 -- 11 Ambassadors from the East 138 -- 12 White Gold 147 -- 13 Brown Ivory 163 -- IV. The Circus Comes to Town -- 14 Bailey and Barnum, Jumbo and Bet 177 -- 15 Topsy Was Framed 196 -- 16 Our Kind of Elephants 206 -- V. Endings -- 17 The Elephant Island 221 -- 18 Catching an Elephant 229 -- 19 No Room in the Nilgiris 243 -- 20 Must This Show Go On? 254 -- 21 Breaking Contact 273 -- 22 Seeing the Elephant 287