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Author : Donna Landry
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801890284
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.
Author : Daniel O'Quinn,Alexis Tadie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487510749
In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport’s impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century. Editors Daniel O’Quinn and Alexis Tadié have gathered together an array of European and North American scholars to critically examine the educational, political, and medical contexts that separated sports from other physical activities. The volume reveals how the mediation of sporting activities, through match reports, pictures, and players, transcended the field of aristocratic patronage and gave rise to the social and economic forces we now associate with sports. In Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 , O’Quinn and Tadié successfully lay the groundwork for future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and representation in sports culture.
Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000098442
Author : Adriana Craciun,Mary Terrall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487518493
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver.
Author : John Harvey Kellogg,James Thomas Case
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Hygiene
ISBN : UOM:39015076974164
Author : John Harvey Kellogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Sex
ISBN : HARVARD:RSM3B9
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Shorthand
ISBN : UOM:39015086782201
Author : Eva Jolene Boyd
Publisher : Wordware
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Animal introduction
ISBN : 155622379X
This book details the U.S. government's experiment with camels in the Army before the outbreak of the Civil War. Imported from the Middle East in 1855 on the navy's USS Supply, the camels were commissioned as beasts of burden in the survey expeditions across the arid Southwest. With an extensive collection of rare photographs, drawings, and maps, this historically accurate narrative is highlighted by numerous excerpts from journals by those who actually lived the adventure.
Author : Kristen Guest,Monica Mattfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429656927
This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans. The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race, gender, class, region, and nation. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse, each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals. Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, in the fields of human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history, and literature.
Author : Frans De Bruyn,Shaun Regan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643550
The Seven Years' War (17561763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century Winston Churchill called it the first world war and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years' War remains woefully understudied. The Culture of the Seven Years' War is the first collection of essays to take a broad interdisciplinary and multinational approach to this important global conflict. Rather than focusing exclusively on political, diplomatic, or military issues, this collection examines the impact of representation, identity, and conceptions and experiences of empire. With essays by notable scholars that address the war's impact in Europe and the Atlantic world, this volume is sure to become essential reading for those interested in the relationship between war, culture, and the arts.
Author : Rebecca Cassidy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781107495739
People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was exported, unaltered, to the colonies. This Companion investigates the intersection of racing and literature, art, history and finance, casting the sport as the product of cross-class, cosmopolitan and international influences. Chapters on racing history and the origins of the thoroughbred demonstrate how the gift of a fast horse could forge alliances between nations, and the extent to which international power dynamics can be traced back to racetracks and breeding sheds. Leading scholars and journalists draw on original research and firsthand experience to create portraits of the racetracks of Newmarket, Kentucky, the Curragh, and Hunter Valley, exposing readers to new racing frontiers in China and Dubai as well. A unique resource for fans and scholars alike, reopening essential questions regarding the legacy and importance of horseracing today.
Author : Sascha R. Klement
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839455838
Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.
Author : Sven Lindqvist
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620977057
Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned “A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust. Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”
Author : Oscar Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11570320
Author : Sir Victor Alexander Brooke,Oscar Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Hunting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039339697