Precarious Partners
Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France
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Introduction: The Most Beautiful Conquest of Man?
1. Heads or Tails? Painting History with a Horse
2. Putting the Horse before Descartes: Sensibility and the War on Pity
3. Making Horsework Visible: Domestication and Labor from Buffon to Bonheur
4. Let Them Eat Horse
5. Purebreds and Amazons: Race, Gender, and Species from the Second Empire to the Third Republic
6. “The Man on Horseback”: From Military Might to Circus Sports
7. Animal Magnetism, Affective Influence, and Moral Dressage
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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