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Noble Brutes:

How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture
  • ISBN-13: 9780801890284
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Donna Landry
  • Price: AUD $124.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2009
  • Format: Hardback (235.00mm X 160.00mm) 248 pages Weight: 550g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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His lordships Arabian, a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, described a new kind of horse imported into the British Isles from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States of North Africa. Noble Brutes traces how the introduction of these Eastern blood horses transformed early modern culture and revolutionized Englands racing and equestrian tradition. More than two hundred Oriental horses were imported into the British Isles between 1650 and 1750. With the horses came Eastern ideas about horsemanship and the relationship between horses and humans. Landrys groundbreaking archival research reveals how these Eastern imports profoundly influenced riding and racing styles, as well as literature and sporting art. After only a generation of crossbreeding on British soil, the English Thoroughbred was born, and with it the gentlemanly ideal of free forward movement over a country as an enactment of English liberties. This 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 Swifts Gullivers Travels and George Stubbss portrait of Whistlejacket.Landry has made an attractive contribution to the emerging field of animal history and to the larger field of cultural studies.Susan Staves, Brandeis University

Introduction: 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 Ladyships Arabian: AftermathsAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

 

""Noble Brutes does a service not only to scholarship, but to horses as well.""

 

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