Farewell to the horse : a cultural history

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Farewell to the horse : a cultural history

Ulrich Raulff ; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Liveright, 2018

1st American ed

タイトル別名

Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde : Geschichte einer Trennung

Farewell to the horse : the final century of our relationship

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First published in German by C.H. Beck in 2015 under the title "Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde: Geschichte einer Trennung", this translation 1st published by Allen Lane in 2017 under the title "Farewell to the horse: the final century of our relationship"

Includes index

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内容説明

Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they've been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels-and ultimately marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a stunning panorama of a world shaped by hooves, and the imprint left on humankind. "A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it."- James Rebanks, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shepherd's Life

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB26440724
  • ISBN
    • 9781631494321
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ger
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 449 p., [16] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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