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1 online resource (613 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1: 'But where's the bloody horse?' Humans, Horses and Historiography; Chapter 2: The Reins of Power: Equine Ecological Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Chapter 3: Blood Horses: Equine Breeding, Lineage and Purity in Nineteenth-century South Africa; Chapter 4: The Empire Rides Back: An African Response to the Horse in Southern Africa; Chapter 5: 'The last of the old campaigners': Horses in the South African War, c.1899-1902 |
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Chapter 6: 'The Cinderella of the livestock industry': The Changing Role of Horses in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 7: High Horses: Horses, Class and Socio-economic Change in South Africa; Chapter 8: The World the Horses Made; Endnotes; Bibliography; Permissions; Index |
| Summary |
Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonizers not only provided power and transportation to settlers (and later Indigenous peoples) but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were not only agents but subjects of enduring changes. This book explores the introduction of these horses under VOC rule in the mid-seventeenth century, t |
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Print version record |
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Horses -- South Africa -- History
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Horses -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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Horses
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Horses -- Social aspects
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781868146673 |
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1868146677 |
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9781868148547 |
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1868148548 |
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