Books 2000-Present

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Anthony, David W. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Antikas, Theodore G. Olympica Hippica: Horses, Men and Women in the Ancient Olympiics. Athens, Greece: Editions Euandros, 2004.


Armistead, Gene C.
Horses and Mules in the Civil War: A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.

Bibby, Miriam Ann, University of Manchester, and Department of Religions and Theology. The Horse in Ancient Egypt. Manchester: University of Manchester, 2000.

Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders. Eclipse Press, 2003.

———. Legacies of the Turf, Vol. 2: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders. First Edition edition. Lexington, Ky. : Lanham, MD: Eclipse Press, 2004.

Clark, John, and Museum of London. The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment, c.1150-c.1450. Woodbridge: Boydell Press in association with Museum of London, 2011. EHC Review

Conley, Kevin. Stud: Adventures in Breeding. 1 edition. Bloomsbury USA, 2008.

Cuneo, Pia F, and Alison G Stewart. Animals and Early Modern Identity. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014.

De Ornellas, Kevin. The Horse in Early Modern English Culture: Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed. Lanham, Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.

Derry, Margaret. Horses in Society A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800?1920. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.

DiMarco, Louis A. War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider. 1 edition. Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing, 2012.

DiNardo, Robert L. Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism: Horses and the German Army of World War II. Stackpole Books, 2008.

Edwards, Peter. Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge, GBR: Cambridge University Press, 2011. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4639258.


Edwards, Peter, K. A. E Enenkel, and Elspeth Graham. The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 2009.

Forrest, Susanna. The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History. London: Atlantic Books, 2016.

Gatto, Kimberly. Belair Stud: The Cradle of Maryland Horse Racing. The History Press, 2012.

Greene, Ann Norton. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Hamalainen, Pekka. Comanche Empire by Hamalainen. Book Club Edition edition. Yale Univ Pr, 2008.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Ballantine Books, 2003.

Hollingsworth, Kent, and Ed Bowen. The Kentucky Thoroughbred. Reprint edition. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Huggins, Mike. Horseracing and the British, 1919-39. Manchester, UK; New York; New York: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Hutton, Robin, and General James F. Amos. Sgt. Reckless: America’s War Horse. Pap/Crds R edition. Regnery History, 2015.

Hyland, Ann. The Horse in the Ancient World. Thrupp: Sutton, 2003.

 

———. The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium. Stockton-on-Tees: Black Tent Publications, 2010.

Hyland, Ann, and Lesley Skipper. The War Horse in the Modern Era: Breeder to Battlefield, 1600 to 1865. Stockton-on-Tees, UK: Black Tent Publications, 2009.

Kathman, Lesli. The Equine Tapestry: An Introduction to Colors and Patterns. Charlotte, NC.: Blackberry Lane Press, LLC, 2014.

Kelekna, Pita. The Horse in Human History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Kenyon, David. Horsemen in No Man’s Land: British Cavalry and Trench Warfare, 1914-1918. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword, 2011.

Letts, Elizabeth. The Perfect Horse: The Daring Mission to Rescue Priceless Stallions from the Nazis. Ballantine Books, 2016. EHC Review

Livingston, Phil, and Ed Roberts. War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses.  Albany, Tex: Bright Sky Press, 2003. EHC Review

McGrath, Christopher. Mr. Darley’s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses. 1 edition. Pegasus Books, 2017. EHC Review

McGraw, Eliza R. L. Here Comes Exterminator!: The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero. St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Mooney, Katherine C. Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. EHC Review

Nicolay, Johan. Armed Batavians: Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-Military Contexts in the Rhine Delta (50 BC to AD 450). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3001913.

Pyhrr, Stuart W., Donald J. LaRocca, and Dirk H. Breiding. The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480-1620. New York : New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2005.

Raber, Karen, and Treva J. Tucker. The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Ramsey. Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander. Potomac Books Inc., 2005.

Raulff, Ulrich. Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History. Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. 1 edition. S.l.: Liveright, 2018.

Riess, Steven. The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865­–1913. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Roche, Daniel and Daniel Reytier, Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle (Paris: Association pour l’académie d’art équestre de Versailles, 2002). EHC Review

Schwartz, Jane. Ruffian: Burning From the Start. Ballantine Books, 2007.

Serrano, Richard A. American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West. Smithsonian Books, 2016.

Swart, Sandra. Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2010.

Taylor, Tobi Lopez. Orzel: Scottsdale’s Legendary Arabian Stallion, 2016.

Taylor, Tobi Lopez, and Brusally Ranch (Ariz.). The Polish and Russian Arabians of Ed Tweed’s Brusally Ranch. Tucson, Arizona: Mare’s Nest Books, 2013.

Tomassini, Giovanni Battista. The Italian Tradition of Equestrian Art: A Survey of the Treatises on Horsemanship from the Renaissance and the Centuries Following, 2014.


Tweedy, Kate Chenery, Leeanne Ladin, and Wayne Dementi. Secretariat’s Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend. Manakin-Sabot, VA: Dementi Milestone Pub., 2010.


West, Elliott. The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story. 1 edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Willekes, Carolyn. The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2016.

Winton, Graham. Theirs Not To Reason Why’. Horsing the British Army 1875-1925. Helion and Company, 2013.

York, Neil Longley. Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001.