{"product_id":"9781032084428","title":"Horse Breeds and Human Society Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRoutledge Human-Animal Studies Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHorse Breeds and Human Society\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePurity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKristen Guest | Monica Mattfeld\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eNature \/ Animals \/ Horses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race, gender, class, region, and nation. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse, each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, in the fields of human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKristen Guest is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia where she teaches Victorian literature. She has edited Anna Sewell’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Beauty \u003c\/i\u003e(Broadview Press, 2015) and, in collaboration with Monica Mattfeld, is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eEquestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society and the Discourse of Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Chicago Press, 2019) and a special issue of \u003ci\u003eHumanimalia \u003c\/i\u003efocusing on breed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship \u003c\/i\u003e(Penn State University Press, 2017), and she is co-editor with Karen Raber of \u003ci\u003ePerforming Animals: History, Agency, Theater \u003c\/i\u003e(Penn State University Press, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eEquestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society and the Discourse of Modernity \u003c\/i\u003ewith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 June 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTaylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoutledge\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781032084428\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e268\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63535184216204,"sku":"9781032084428","price":56.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781032084428","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}