Equestrian cultures : horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity / edited by Kristen Gues...
Equestrian cultures : horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity / edited by Kristen Gues...
Equestrian cultures : horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity / edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2020/1871
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
vi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction / Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld -- 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 dign...
Publication information
Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2019.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
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...
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Full title
Equestrian cultures : horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity / edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld.
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Notes
General note
Animal lives
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
©2019
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Call Numbers
G 2020/1871
Record Identifier
74VKaDEpN88Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDEpN88Z
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ISBN
9780226583044
DDC
636.1
MMS ID
991024298717802626
