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Author Guest, Kristen

Title Horse Breeds and Human Society : Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Series Routledge Human-Animal Studies Ser
Routledge Human-Animal Studies Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Horse breeds: introduction -- Part I Before breed: historical contexts for an emerging discourse -- 1 Defining "race" in the Spanish horse: the breeding program of King Philip II -- 2 Habsburg Lipizzaners, English Thoroughbreds and the paradoxes of purity -- 3 Manufacturing the horse: understandings of inheritance in the long eighteenth century -- Part II Breed and national/regional identity
4 How northern was Pistol? The Galloway nag as self-identity and satire in an age of supra-national horse trading -- 5 "Horse breeding is not a state affair!" State stallions, breed regulation and the Friesian horse -- 6 Crioulos e crioulistas: Southern Brazilian equestrian culture in a changing world -- 7 Bois y cobs: the place of autochthonous horses in rural Welsh cultural identity -- Part III Wild horses and the politics of breed -- 8 Inventing the wild horse: the manmade history of the Takhi and Tarpan from 1828-2018 -- 9 Mustang, wild horse or breed? Reflections of American culture
10 Wild at heart: the Chincoteague Pony and the paradox of feral "breed" -- Part IV Purity and evolution: breed standards and breed organizations -- 11 The transition from type to breed: draft horses and purebred breeding in the international American market, 1870-1910 -- 12 The ideal horse: politics and practices of Knabstrupper breeding -- 13 The making and remaking of the Arabian horse -- from the Arab Bedouin horse to the modern Straight Egyptian -- Index
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Subject Horses -- Breeding -- History
Horses -- Breeding
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mattfeld, Monica
ISBN 9780429659362
0429659369
9780429656927
0429656920