Kathryn Renton

Feral Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009089852
• Artikelnr.: 72354956

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Renton is a historian and a communications specialist at the Getty Research Institute. Her research is published in English and Spanish in the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Court Historian, Bulletin Hispanique, and several edited volumes. She is the cofounder and past president of the Equine History Collective.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: horse and human in the early modern world
1. The equine imprint in Iberian history, tenth to fifteenth centuries
2. A politics of horses: scarcity and colonization in the new world
3. The paradox of abundance and illusion of control: an equine political ecology
4. Indigenous equestrianism: a 'New World' frontier model
5. Ferality and breed in 'New World' horses
6. Defining Casta and Raza: horse breeding and the language of race
Conclusion: feral empire
Works cited
Index.