Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Equestrian Cultures 1
4. Part One: Science and Technology
5. One. Machines of Feeling: Bits and Interspecies Communication in the Eighteenth Century 11
6. Two. Horses at Waterloo, 1815 26
7. Three. The Agency and the Matter of the Dead Horse in the Victorian Novel 39
8. Four. The Aura of Dignity: On Connection and Trust in the Photographs of Charlotte Dumas 54
9. Part Two: Commodification and Consumption
10. Five. Stabilizing Politics: The Stables of Weißenstein Castle in Pommersfelden (1717–21) 73
11. Six. Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World 92
12. Seven. Narratives of Race and Racehorses in the Art of Edward Troye 110
13. Eight. “More Than a Horse”: The Cultural Work of Racehorse Biography 128
14. Part Three: National Identity
15. Nine. The Politics of Reproduction: Horse Breeding and State Studs in Prussia, 1750–1900 145
16. Ten. “Horsemeat Is Certainly Delicious”: Anxiety, Xenophobia, and Rationalism at a Nineteenth-Century American Hippophagic Banquet 160
17. Eleven. Circus Studs and Equestrian Sports in Turn-of-the-Century France 179
18. Twelve. Heritage Icon or Environmental Pest? Brumbies in the Australian Cultural Imaginary 201
19. Notes 217
20. Contributors 263
21. Index 267