Horse Breeds and Human Society

Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
Herausgeber: Guest, Kristen; Mattfeld, Monica

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, status through interconnections between animals and humans.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781032084428
• ISBN-10: 1032084421
• Artikelnr.: 62148759

Autorenporträt

Kristen Guest is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia where she teaches Victorian literature. She has edited Anna Sewell's Black Beauty (Broadview Press, 2015) and, in collaboration with Monica Mattfeld, is co-editor of Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society and the Discourse of Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and a special issue of Humanimalia focusing on breed. Monica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is author of Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship (Penn State University Press, 2017), and she is co-editor with Karen Raber of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (Penn State University Press, 2017) and Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society and the Discourse of Modernity with Kristen Guest. Monica is currently interested in questions of breed, type, and purity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with questions relating to equine performance and nineteenth-century hippodrama.

Inhaltsangabe

Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld, Introduction; Part I: Before Breed:
Historical Contexts for an Emerging Discourse 1. Kathryn Renton, "Defining
'Race' in the Spanish Horse: the breeding program of King Philip II"; 2.
Donna Landry, "Habsburg Lipizzaners, English Thoroughbreds and the
Paradoxes of Purity"; 3. Katrin Boniface, "Manufacturing the Horse:
Understandings of Inheritance in the Long Eighteenth Century"; Part II:
Breed and National/Regional Identity 4. Miriam Bibby, "'How Northern was
Pistol? The Galloway nag as self-identity and satire in an age of
supra-national horse trading"; 5. Jorieke Savelkouls, "'Horse breeding is
not a state affair!' State stallions, regulation and the Friesian horse";
6. Miriam Adelman and Ana Camphora "Crioulos e crioulistas: Southern
Brazilian equestrian culture in a changing world"; 7. Samantha Hurn, "Bois
y cobs: The place of autochthonous horses in rural Welsh cultural
identity"; Part III: Wild Horses and the Politics of Breed 8. Susanna
Forrest "Inventing the Wild Horse: The Manmade History of the Takhi and
Tarpan from 1828-2018"; 9. Karen Dalke, "Mustang, Wild Horse or Breed?
Reflections of American Culture"; 10. Kristen Guest ,"Wild at Heart: The
Chincoteague Pony and the Paradox of Feral 'Breed'"; Part IV: Purity and
Evolution: Breed Standards and Breed Organizations 11. Margaret Derry "The
Transition from Type to Breed: Draft Horses and Purebred Breeding in the
International American Market, 1870-1920"; 12. Irina Wenk, "The Ideal
Horse: Politics and Practices of Knabstrupper Breeding"; 13. Christophe
Lange, "The Making and Remaking of the Arabian Horse - From the Arab
Bedouin Horse to the Modern Straight Egyptian(TM)"; Index