The Running Centaur: Horse-Racing in Global-Historical Perspective

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This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global history.

Unlike previous histories of horse racing, which generally make claims about the exclusiveness of modern sport and therefore diminish the importance of premodern physical contests, the contributors to this book approach racing as a deep history of diachronically comparable practices, discourses, and perceptions...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1032162333

ISBN13:9781032162331

Release Date:December 2021

Publisher:Routledge

Length:206 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"

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