Equestrian cultures : horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Animal lives Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
Subject:	Horses -- History. Human-animal relationships -- History. Horses -- Social aspects. Animals and civilization. History, Modern. Animals and civilization. History, Modern. Horses. Horses -- Social aspects. Human-animal relationships. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11761774

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Other authors / contributors:	Guest, Kristen, 1967- editor. Mattfeld, Monica, 1982- editor.
ISBN:	9780226589657 022658965X 9780226583044 022658304X 9780226589510 022658951X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 2, 2019).
Summary:	"This work places the modern period (post-1700) at the center of the scholarship on horses as they relate to humans, showing how the horse has remained central to the accelerating culture of modernity. The contributors investigate specific equine cultures--from the performance of social power and the definition of heritage in Europe, Australia, and the Americas, to explorations of the ways horses figure in distinctively modern genres of the self, such as autobiography, biography, and photographic portraiture."--Supplied by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Equestrian cultures. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 9780226583044

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld
Science and technology. Machines of feeling: bits and interspecies communication in the eighteenth century / Monica Mattfeld
Horses at Waterloo, 1815 / Donna Landry
The agency and the matter of the dead horse in the Victorian novel / Sinan Akilli
The aura of dignity: on connection and trust in the photographs of Charlotte Dumas / Rune Gade
Commodification and consumption. Stabilizing politics: the stables of Weissenstein Castle in Pommersfelden (1717-21) / Magdalena Bayreuther and Christine Rüppell
Trading horses in the eighteenth century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic world / Charlotte Carrington-Farmer
Narratives of race and racehorses in the art of Edward Troye / Jessica Dallow
"More than a horse": the cultural work of racehorse biography / Kristen Guest
National identity. The politics of reproduction: horse breeding and state studs in prussia, 1750-1900 / Tatsuya Mitsuda
Horsemeat is certainly delicious": anxiety, xenophobia, and rationalism at a nineteenth-century American hippophagic banquet / Susanna Forrest
Circus studs and equestrian sports in turn-of-the-century France / Kari Weil
Heritage icon or environmental pest? Brumbies in the Australian cultural imaginary / Isa Menzies.

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