Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘But where's the bloody horse?’ Humans, Horses and Historiography
- Chapter 2 The Reins of Power: Equine Ecological Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Chapter 3 Blood Horses: Equine Breeding, Lineage and Purity in Nineteenth-century South Africa
- Chapter 4 The Empire Rides Back: An African Response to the Horse in Southern Africa
- Chapter 5 ‘The last of the old campaigners’: Horses in the South African War, c.1899–1902
- Chapter 6 ‘The Cinderella of the livestock industry’: The Changing Role of Horses in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 7 High Horses: Horses, Class and Socio-economic Change in South Africa
- Chapter 8 The World the Horses Made
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘But where's the bloody horse?’ Humans, Horses and Historiography
- Chapter 2 The Reins of Power: Equine Ecological Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Chapter 3 Blood Horses: Equine Breeding, Lineage and Purity in Nineteenth-century South Africa
- Chapter 4 The Empire Rides Back: An African Response to the Horse in Southern Africa
- Chapter 5 ‘The last of the old campaigners’: Horses in the South African War, c.1899–1902
- Chapter 6 ‘The Cinderella of the livestock industry’: The Changing Role of Horses in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 7 High Horses: Horses, Class and Socio-economic Change in South Africa
- Chapter 8 The World the Horses Made
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- Index
Summary
![Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'](https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Abook%3A9781868146673/resource/name/firstPage-9781868146673pre_pi-iv_CBO.jpg)
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Riding HighHorses, Humans and History in South Africa, pp. i - ivPublisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2010