Kari Weil Libros

Introduction : The most beautiful conquest of man? -- Heads or tails? Painting history with a horse -- Putting the horse before Descartes : sensibility and the war on pity -- Making horsework visible : domestication and labor from Buffon to Bonheur -- Let them eat horse -- Purebreds and Amazons : race, gender, and species from the Second Empire to the Third Republic -- "The man on horseback" : From military might to circus sports -- Animal magnetism, affective influence, and moral dressage