Kathryn Renton (Los Angeles University of California)

Feral Empire

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

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Produktbeschreibung

Feral Empire traces the spread of horses during the Spanish conquest and colonization. It will interest scholars of animal studies and early modern Latin American history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515075
• ISBN-10: 1316515079
• Artikelnr.: 70528363

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Renton is a historian and a communications specialist at the Getty Research Institute. Her research is published in English and Spanish in the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Court Historian, Bulletin Hispanique, and several edited volumes. She is the cofounder and past president of the Equine History Collective.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: horse and human in the early modern world
1. The equine imprint in Iberian history, tenth to fifteenth centuries
2. A politics of horses: scarcity and colonization in the new world
3. The paradox of abundance and illusion of control: an equine political ecology
4. Indigenous equestrianism: a 'New World' frontier model
5. Ferality and breed in 'New World' horses
6. Defining Casta and Raza: horse breeding and the language of race
Conclusion: feral empire
Works cited
Index.