Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture

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Donna Landry, Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

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an absolutely ground-breaking study that definitively shows not only the Orientalized nature of that quintessentially English horse, the Thoroughbred, but also demonstrates how essential horses were to the culture and society of eighteenth-century Britain. - MONICA MATTFELD