Farewell to the horse a cultural history
"Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
2018.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The long farewell
- Part I: The Centaurian pact : energy. Hell for horses ; A pastoral incident ; Riding West ; The shock ; The Jewish horsewoman
- Part II: A phantom in the library : knowledge. Blood and speed ; The anatomy lesson ; Connoisseurs and conmen ; Researchers
- Part III: The living metaphor : pathos. Napoleon ; The fourth rider ; The whip ; Turin: a winter's tale
- Part IV: The forgotten player : histories. Teeth and time ; Conquest ; Out of the picture ; Herodotus.
