Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Most Beautiful Conquest of Man? 1
5. 1. Heads or Tails? Painting History with a Horse 21
6. 2. Putting the Horse before Descartes: Sensibility and the War on Pity 44
7. 3. Making Horsework Visible: Domestication and Labor from Buffon to Bonheur 63
8. 4. Let Them Eat Horse 84
9. 5. Purebreds and Amazons: Race, Gender, and Species from the Second Empire to the Third Republic 103
10. 6. “The Man on Horseback”: From Military Might to Circus Sports 131
11. 7. Animal Magnetism, Affective Influence, and Moral Dressage 156
12. Afterword 176
13. Acknowledgments 179
14. Notes 183
15. Index 213