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Noble Brutes - How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,529
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Noble Brutes - How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (Hardcover): Donna Landry

Noble Brutes - How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (Hardcover)

Donna Landry

Series: Animals, History, Culture

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"His lordship's 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 England's 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. Landry's 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 Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and George Stubbs's portrait of "Whistlejacket."

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Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Animals, History, Culture
Release date: March 2009
First published: December 2008
Authors: Donna Landry (Professor of English and American Literature)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9028-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Horses & ponies
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Equestrian & animal sports > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-8018-9028-4
Barcode: 9780801890284

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