Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Precarious Partners by Kari Weil From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and appeal of War Horse, there is no question that horses still play a role in our lives—though fewer and fewer of us actually interact with them. In Precarious Partners, Kari Weil takes readers back to a time in France when horses were an inescapable part of daily life. This was a time when horse ownership became an attainable dream not just for soldiers but also for middle-class children; when natural historians argued about animal intelligence; when the prevalence of horse beatings led to the first animal protection laws; and when the combined magnificence and abuse of these animals inspired artists, writers, and riders alike. Weil traces the evolving partnerships established between French citizens and their horses through this era. She considers the newly designed "races" of workhorses who carried men from the battlefield to the hippodrome, lugged heavy loads through the boulevards, or paraded women riders, amazones, in the parks or circus halls—as well as those unfortunate horses who found their fate on a dinner plate. Moving between literature, painting, natural philosophy, popular cartoons, sports manuals, and tracts of public hygiene, Precarious Partners traces the changing social, political, and emotional relations with these charismatic creatures who straddled conceptions of pet and livestock in nineteenth-century France. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now and Androgyny and the Denial of Difference. Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The Most Beautiful Conquest of Man? 1. Heads or Tails? Painting History with a Horse 2. Putting the Horse before Descartes: Sensibility and the War on Pity 3. Making Horse work Visible: Domestication and Labor from Buffon to Bonheur 4. Let Them Eat Horse 5. Purebreds and Amazons: Race, Gender, and Species from the Second Empire to the Third Republic 6. "The Man on Horseback": From Military Might to Circus Sports 7. Animal Magnetism, Affective Influence, and Moral Dressage Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index Review "Precarious Partners offers an insightful and illuminating exploration of horse-human relations in nineteenth-century France... Weils command of written and visual sources is outstanding throughout the book."-- "H-France Review""Precarious Partners brilliantly ties horse-human relations to questions of race, gender, class, and species in nineteenth-century France. From women on horseback to pity for horses to the consumption of horsemeat; and from natural history to art history, philosophy, literature, and politics, Weils wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study makes an outstanding contribution to French studies, cultural history, and animal studies."-- "Peter Sahlins, author of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France""Weils gentle prose effortlessly unfolds the most complex overlapping of human and equine histories. Her finely detailed research holds our most alert attention in that she demonstrates how equestrian worlds produce intricate formations of race, gender, sexuality, and species within and beyond their ostensible domain. Precarious Partners is intensely readable and leaves the reader wanting to follow its every thread."-- "Lynn Turner, coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies" Review Quote "Weils gentle prose effortlessly unfolds the most complex overlapping of human and equine histories. Her finely detailed research holds our most alert attention in that she demonstrates how equestrian worlds produce intricate formations of race, gender, sexuality, and species within and beyond their ostensible domain. Precarious Partners is intensely readable and leaves the reader wanting to follow its every thread." Details ISBN022668623X Author Kari Weil Pages 240 Series Animal Lives Year 2020 ISBN-10 022668623X ISBN-13 9780226686233 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-03-23 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States DEWEY 636.10944 Short Title Precarious Partners Language English UK Release Date 2020-03-23 AU Release Date 2020-03-23 NZ Release Date 2020-03-23 US Release Date 2020-03-23 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780226686233
Book Title: Precarious Partners
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Kari Weil
Series: Animal Lives
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
