The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing

Herausgeber: Cassidy, Rebecca

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text will provoke a discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible and scholarly style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781107013858
• ISBN-10: 1107013852
• Artikelnr.: 36958467

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Horseracing: a chronology
Introduction Rebecca Cassidy
1. Sporting with kings Richard Nash
2. The thoroughbred in British art Douglas Fordham
3. The fiction of horseracing Jane Smiley
4. From Godolphin to Godolphin: the turf re-laid Wray Vamplew
5. Festivals Sean Magee
6. Bodies on the line: the social and physical capital of race riding John Maynard
7. Life in the backstretch James Helmer
8. Irish racing's peaceable kingdoms Michael Hinds
9. 'Sydney or the Bush': adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing Wayne Peake
10. Saratoga style Jonathan Silverman
11. The Dubai connection Rachel Pagones
12. Racing in Asia Mark Godfrey
13. Global markets, changing technology: the future of the betting industry Mark Davies
14. Horseracing: local traditions and global connections Chris McConville.