Bedouin Heritage: The World of the Arabian Horse by Matthias Oster Review by Hylke Hettema In Bedouin Heritage (2016), Matthias Oster proposes to take his readers… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Bedouin Heritage”
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#ShelfieSunday: Horse Nations
Horse Nations, by Peter Mitchell, 2015. Oxford: Oxford University Press Review by Kathryn Renton In Horse Nations (2015), Peter Mitchell offers a wide-ranging synthesis of archaeological,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Horse Nations”
#Shelfie Sunday: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500
John Langdon, Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Review by Jordan Claridge Now… Read more “#Shelfie Sunday: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500”
#ShelfieSunday: Kingdom of the Workhorse
Kingdom of the Workhorse by A.J.Dampier Countryside Publications, 1987 ISBN 0 86157 226 2 Review by Miriam Bibby This splendid account of the lives of working… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Kingdom of the Workhorse”
#ShelfieSunday: ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
Louise Hill Curth, ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Review by Janice Gunther Martin Louise… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England”
#ShelfieSunday: The Comanche Empire
The Comanche Empire. By Pekka Hämäläinen. The Lamar Series in Western History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Review by Christopher Valesey Winner of twelve… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Comanche Empire”
#ShelfieSunday: The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium
Review by Jane Flynn Read her blog here. Hyland A., The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium, Black Tent… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium”
#ShelfieSunday: Here Comes Exterminator!
Review by Eric Banks In Here Comes Exterminator!, writer Eliza McGraw revisits the life of the 1918 Kentucky Derby–winning gelding Exterminator, one of the most… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Here Comes Exterminator!”
#SheflieSunday: Riding for Caesar
Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guards Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1994 ISBN 978-0-674-76898-7 Michael P. Speidel Review by Miriam Bibby Last summer (2017),… Read more “#SheflieSunday: Riding for Caesar”
#ShelfieSunday: Mr. Darley’s Arabian
Review by Katherine Mooney Christopher McGrath begins Mr. Darley’s Arabian in the starting gate at Newmarket and follows Frankel to victory in the… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Mr. Darley’s Arabian”