Research Catalog

Title

Riding high : horses, humans and history in South Africa / Sandra Swart.

Author

Swart, Sandra.

Publication

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xiv, 344 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The equine colonisers of southern Africa not only provided power and transportation to settlers (and later indigenous peoples) but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. On commando, as draft and transport animals, and finally as markers of social status, horses were key to these colonial economies, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations."--Back cover.

Subject

• Horses > South Africa > History
• Horses > Social aspects > South Africa
• Horses
• Horses > Social aspects
• Pferd
• Hästar > historia > Sydafrika
• South Africa
• Südafrika Kontinent

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-330) and index.

Contents

'But where's the bloody horse?' : humans, horses and historiography -- The reins of power : equine ecological imperialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Blood horse : equine breeding, lineage and purity in nineteenth-century South Africa -- The Empire rides back : an African response to the horse in Southern Africa -- 'The last of the old campaigners' : horses in the South African War, c. 1899-1902 -- 'The Cinderella of the livestock industry' : the changing role of horses in the first half of the twentieth century -- High horses : horses, class and socio-economic change in South Africa -- The world the horses made.

ISBN

• 9781868145140
• 186814514X
• 9781868146673
• 1868146677

LCCN

2010553161

OCLC

• ocn664678658
• 664678658
• SCSB-1578600

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library