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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Horses and Men
1 William Cavendish and Hobbesian Horsemanship
2 Riding Houses and Polite Equestrianism
3 Astley’s Amphitheatre
4 Henry William Bunbury and the Mock Manuals of Horsemanship
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Becoming Centaur deftly blends cultural, political, and human-animal history. It is a masterful case study of how a particular social group—in this case elite horsemen—can shed light on broader cultural and political trends, both illustrating and complicating dominant narratives of change over time.”
—Ingrid H. Tague, Journal of Modern History
