Precarious partners : horses and their humans in nineteenth-century France / Kari Weil.
"Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable dream, not just for soldiers, but for middle-class (bourgeois) boys and girls. It charts the rise of the horse as an integral par...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
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| Summary: | "Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable dream, not just for soldiers, but for middle-class (bourgeois) boys and girls. It charts the rise of the horse as an integral part of daily life in Paris (as work, sport, and food) and the social, political, and affective changes that brought about and followed from the presence of horses on streets and in parks, in the show ring and race track, and even on plates. It also ably traces a rise in "equestrian rhetoric," whose sexual, class, and racial inflections were influenced both by Anglomania and by colonialist attraction to the "hot-blooded" horses of Arab countries. Moving between literature, painting, natural philosophy, popular cartoons, sport manuals, and tracts of public hygiene, this book seeks to understand the changing relations to horses who straddled conceptions of pet and livestock, existing between objects of affection, on the one hand, and material as well as symbolic capital, on the other"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226686233 022668623X 9780226686370 022668637X |