The Running Centaur: Horse-Racing in Global-Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032162331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str.

Sinclair W. Bell; Christian Jaser; Christian Mann

Opis

This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global history.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Towards a Global History of Horse Racing 2. Horse Races and Chariot Races in Ancient Greece: Struggling for Eternal Glory 3. Horse Racing in Imperial Rome: Athletic Competition, Equine Performance, and Urban Spectacle 4. The Emperor and His People at the Chariot Races in Byzantium 5. Horse Racing at the Ottoman Court, 1524–1728 6. Urban Palio and Scharlach Races in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Italy and Germany 7. Spectacular Spanish Horses in New Spain 8. The Sport of Kingmakers: Horse Racing in Late Stuart England 9. Capitalist Horse Sense: Sports Betting and Option Trading during the English Financial Revolution, 1690–1740 10. ‘A Horse-Race is the Same All the World Over’: The Cultural Context of Horse Racing in Native North America