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Johns Hopkins University Press Noble Brutes How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture Animals History Culture
Book SynopsisThis radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating thesis, absorbing in its many insights and detours, and lovingly argued. -- Allan Mallinson Country Life 2009 Only someone who is both a cultural historian and a devoted horse person could have written this remarkably engaging, wide-ranging book. Landry... tells in clear, vivid, fascinating detail of developments that will engage cultural and literary historians and animal fanciers. Choice 2009 Donna Landry has produced a book of clean organization and admirable coherence. She writes with telling precision, as well as first-hand acquaintance with all horsey matters. -- Pat Rogers Times Literary Supplement 2010 An important and most welcome contribution to our understanding of the multi-faceted impact of horses on humans and focuses on the significant influence of Eastern imports on English culture... Johns Hopkins University press have published a book with exemplary production values to complement the content. -- Peter Harrigan Arabian Studies 2010 A timely and valuable contribution to the recently burgeoning field of animality and animal studies in the early modern period. -- Richard Nash Eighteenth-Century Studies 2010 It would make a surprising story and support claims that animal studies can make important contributions to the study of history and culture. -- Nicholas Russell American Historical Review 2009 A multi-faceted work that will serve as a landmark in the emerging field of animal and cultural studies. -- Peter Edwards Agricultural History 2010 All historians of the early modern period would benefit from reading this multi-faceted and fascinating book. -- Mike Huggins Journal of Social History 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction: What the Horses Said: An Equine History1. Horsemanship in the British Isles before the Eastern Invasion2. The Making of the English Hunting Seat3. Steal of a Turk: Tracking in Bloodstock4. About a Horse: The Bloody Shouldered Arabian5. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and WestEpilogue: Her Ladyship's Arabian: AftermathsAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Xenophon Press LLC Ecole de Cavalerie Part II School of Horsemanship by de la Gueriniere
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Xenophon Press LLC Another Horsemanship
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Xenophon Press LLC Racinet Explains Baucher
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Xenophon Press LLC TOTAL HORSEMANSHIP A recipe for riding in absolute balance
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Xenophon Press LLC Dressage in the French Tradition
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Xenophon Press LLC 30 YEARS WITH MASTER NUNO OLIVEIRA Correspondence Photographs and Notes Chronicled by Michel Henriquet
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Xenophon Press LLC Gymnasium of the Horse
£37.00
Xenophon Press LLC A Riders Survival from Tyranny
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Xenophon Press LLC The Wisdom of Master Nuno Oliveira by Antoine de Coux
£33.00
Xenophon Press LLC Spanish Riding School and Piaffe and Passage by Decarpentry
£29.00
Xenophon Press LLC The Ethics and Passions of Dressage
£23.75
Xenophon Press LLC THE LEGACY OF MASTER NUNO OLIVEIRA
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Xenophon Press LLC Gymnastic Exercises for Horses Volume II
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Xenophon Press LLC THE ITALIAN TRADITION OF EQUESTRIAN ART A SURVEY OF THE TREATISES ON HORSEMANSHIP FROM THE RENAISSANCE AND THE CENTURIES FOLLOWING
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Xenophon Press LLC Horse Training Outdoors and High School
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Xenophon Press LLC The Science and Art of Riding in Lightness Understanding traininginduced problems their avoidance and remedies English Translation of Medizinische Reitlehre
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Xenophon Press LLC Ecole de Cavalerie Part II Expanded Edition with an Appendix from Part I On the Bridle
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Xenophon Press LLC PRINCIPLES OF DRESSAGE AND EQUITATION also known as BREAKING AND RIDING with military commentaries The Definitive Edition
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Beneficence, Inc Horses From Our Side of the Fence
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Alane Pearce The Lost Cowboy
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Spinning Sevens Press Between the Reins
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Spinning Sevens Press Going Somewhere
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Spinning Sevens Press Passing It on
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Superscript Publishing Equestrian Mounted Games
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Equiculture Publishing Horse Riders Mechanic Workbook 1 Your Position Learn how to correct your own position
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Equiculture Publishing Horse Riders Mechanic Workbook 2 Your Balance Further improve your riding skill
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LEGARE STREET PR The Art of HorseShoeing
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LEGARE STREET PR A Treatise on the Foot of the Horse and a New System of Shoeing
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LEGARE STREET PR Polo
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LEGARE STREET PR Polo Past and Present
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LEGARE STREET PR Polo Past and Present
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Royal Pastime of Cockfighting
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Out With the Birds
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Independently Published Courage to the Sticking Place 6 Fortunes Fool
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Read Books Saddlery and HarnessMaking
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Fredonia Books (NL) Techniques and Equipment for Wilderness Horse Travel
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AuthorHouse Six Chukkers of Love
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