Equestrian cultures: horses, human society, and the discourse of modernity

Introduction: Equestrian cultures / Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld --

Part 1. Science and technology. One. Machines of feeling : bits and interspecies communication in the eighteenth century / Monica Mattfeld ; Two. Horses at Waterloo, 1815 / Donna Landry ; Three. Agency and the matter of the dead horse in the Victorian novel / Sinan Akilli ; Four. Aura of dignity : on connection and trust in the photographs of Charlotte Dumas / Rune Gade --

Part 2. Commodification and consumption. Five. Stabilizing politics : the stables of Weissenstein Castle in Pommersfelden (1717-21) / Magdalena Bayreuther and Christine Rüppell ; Six. Trading horses in the eighteenth century : Rhode Island and the Atlantic world / Charlotte Carrington-Farmer ; Seven. Narratives of race and racehorses in the art of Edward Troye / Jessica Dallow ; Eight. "More than a horse" : the cultural work of racehorse biography / Kristen Guest --

Part 3. National identity. Nine. Politics of reproduction : horse breeding and state studs in Prussia, 1750-1900 / Tatsuya Mitsuda ; Ten. "Horsemeat is certainly delicious" : anxiety, xenophobia, and rationalism at a nineteenth-century American hippophagic banquet / Susanna Forrest ; Eleven. Circus studs and equestrian sports in turn-of-the-century France / Kari Weil ; Twelve. Heritage icon or environmental pest? : brumbies in the Australian cultural imaginary / Isa Menzies.