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The Culture of the Horse. Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World.
. Ed(S): Raber, Karen; Tucker, Treva J.
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hardcover. Editor(s): Raber, Karen; Tucker, Treva J. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 388 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
This volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the significance of the horse. A more complete understanding of the role of horses and horsemanship is absolutely crucial to our understanding of the early modern world. Each essay in the collection provides a snapshot of how horse culture and the broader culture - that tapestry of images, objects, structures, sounds, gestures, texts, and ideas - articulate. Without knowledge of how the horse figured in all these aspects, no version of political, material, or intellectual culture in the period can be ... Read more
This volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the significance of the horse. A more complete understanding of the role of horses and horsemanship is absolutely crucial to our understanding of the early modern world. Each essay in the collection provides a snapshot of how horse culture and the broader culture - that tapestry of images, objects, structures, sounds, gestures, texts, and ideas - articulate. Without knowledge of how the horse figured in all these aspects, no version of political, material, or intellectual culture in the period can be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403966216
SKU
V9781403966216
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About . Ed(S): Raber, Karen; Tucker, Treva J.
KAREN RABER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA. She is author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (Delaware 2002), and co-editor with Ivo Kamps of Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts (Bedfor/St. Martin's 2004). TREVA J. TUCKER is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of ... Read more
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