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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Cassidy |
| ISBN: | 9780801887031 0801887038 |
| OCLC Number: | 132681479 |
| Description: | xiii, 208 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Histories -- The right to be well born -- The horseman makes the horse -- The centers of the world -- Stud farm -- Auction -- Training -- Racing today. |
| Series Title: | Animals, history, culture. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Cassidy. |
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Combining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009 Read more...
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