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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2024

Kathryn Renton
Kathryn Renton
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University of California, Los Angeles

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Feral Empire
Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Contents

  1. List of Illustrations

  2. Acknowledgments

  3. Introduction: Horse and Human in the Early Modern World

    1. Iberian Horse Culture, from “Reconquest” to “New World Conquest”

    2. A Political Ecology of the Horse in the Americas

    3. Breeding the Horse: Limits of Domestication and Race

    4. Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

  4. 1The Equine Imprint in Iberian History, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries

    1. 1.1Deconstructing the Equine Ideal: Knights on the Medieval Iberian Frontier

      1. 1.1.1Knights and Horses: Negotiating Status in Frontier Municipalities

      2. 1.1.2Nobles Riding Mules

      3. 1.1.3Changing Fortunes of Horses in War

    2. 1.2Horses for the Kingdom: Scarcity and Breeding Regulations

    3. 1.3Framing an Iberian Horse Culture

  5. 2A Politics of Horses: Scarcity and Colonization in the New World

    1. 2.1Horses in Conquest Narratives

    2. 2.2Horses as a Measure of Colonization

    3. 2.3An Equine Imprint in the “New World”

  6. 3The Paradox of Abundance and Illusion of Control: An Equine Political Ecology

    1. 3.1The Paradox of Abundance

      1. 3.1.1Environmental Concerns for Supplying Horses in the Americas

      2. 3.1.2“Domesticating” Colonial Landscapes

      3. 3.1.3Protecting the Commons

    2. 3.2The Illusion of Control

      1. 3.2.1New Spain, from High Plains to Borderlands

      2. 3.2.2Peru, from Coastal to Mountain Valleys

    3. 3.3An Equine Political Ecology

  7. 4Indigenous Equestrianism: A “New World” Frontier Model

    1. 4.1A “New World” Frontier Model

      1. 4.1.1License to Ride in New Spain

      2. 4.1.2Indios Conquistadores

    2. 4.2Expanding Uses of the Horse

      1. 4.2.1Growing Tensions

      2. 4.2.2Sharpening Divisions

      3. 4.2.3Status and Lineage Mediated by Horses

    3. 4.3Becoming Equestrian

  8. 5Ferality and Breed in “New World” Horses

    1. 5.1Naming the Cimarrón

    2. 5.2Breeding Criollo Horses

    3. 5.3Brands and Branding Practices

    4. 5.4Regional Types: Castas and Razas

    5. 5.5Issues of Decline

    6. 5.6Domestication and Ferality in Spanish Colonization

  9. 6Defining Casta and Raza: Horse Breeding and the Language of Race

    1. 6.1Regulating Horses and Horse Breeding: Law and Language

    2. 6.2Relaciones de la Cría Caballar (Reports on Horse Breeding)

    3. 6.3Creating and Debating the King’s Race

    4. 6.4Constructing Race

  10. Conclusion: Feral Empire

  11. Works Cited

  12. Index

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