Noble Brutes

How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture

By: Donna Landry

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Hardcover | 16 March 2009

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248 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2

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His lordships Arabian, a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, described a new kind of horse imported into the British Isles from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States of North Africa. Noble Brutes traces how the introduction of these Eastern blood horses transformed early modern culture and revolutionized Englands racing and equestrian tradition. More than two hundred Oriental horses were imported into the British Isles between 1650 and 1750. With the horses came Eastern ideas about horsemanship and the relationship between horses and humans. Landrys groundbreaking archival research reveals how these Eastern imports profoundly influenced riding and racing styles, as well as literature and sporting art. After only a generation of crossbreeding on British soil, the English Thoroughbred was born, and with it the gentlemanly ideal of free forward movement over a country as an enactment of English liberties. 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 Swifts Gullivers Travels and George Stubbss portrait of Whistlejacket.Landry has made an attractive contribution to the emerging field of animal history and to the larger field of cultural studies.Susan Staves, Brandeis University

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