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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press
[2019]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Animal lives
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 275 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780226583044 9780226589510 |