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

"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...

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Other Authors: Guest, Kristen 1967- (Editor), Mattfield, Monica ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press [2019]
Series:Animal lives
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:vi, 275 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780226583044
9780226589510

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