The torturer's horse: Agency and animals in history

History and Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 146-167

  Shaw, David Gary ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Agency; Assemblages; Cavalry; Copenhagen the horse; Duke of Wellington; Horses; Posthumanism; Unities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898461423     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: 14682303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hith.10691     Document Type: Article

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