TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renton,Kathryn E.
TI  - Feral empire: horse and human in the early modern Iberian world 
SN  - 9781009091015 (ebook)
AV  - SF284.S65 R46 2024
U1  - 636.100946 23/eng/20240410
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Horses
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - Iberian Peninsula
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Animals and civilization
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024)
N2  - By tracing the dramatic spread of horses throughout the Americas, Feral Empire explores how horses shaped society and politics during the first century of Spanish conquest and colonization. It defines a culture of the horse in medieval and early modern Spain which, when introduced to the New World, left its imprint in colonial hierarchies and power structures. Horse populations, growing rapidly through intentional and uncontrolled breeding, served as engines of both social exclusion and mobility across the Iberian World. This growth undermined colonial ideals of domestication, purity, and breed in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on extensive research across Latin America and Spain, Kathryn Renton offers an intimate look at animals and their role in the formation of empires. Iberian colonialism in the Americas cannot be explained without understanding human-equine relationships and the centrality of colonialism to human-equine relationships in the early modern world. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091015
ER  -