Neil Ward is Professor of Rural & Regional Development at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he was Deputy Vice Chancellor (2014-2021). He was Director of the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University (2004-2008), served as a Cabinet Office advisor on agriculture and rural affairs, and is author of Net Zero, Food and Farming: Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System (Routledge, 2023).

Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity's relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Horses, Humanity and Scholarship

Chapter 2. Horses in Pre-Industrial History

Chapter 3. Horses, the Industrial Revolution and Empire

Chapter 4. Horses and the Town

Chapter 5. Horses and the Countryside

Chapter 6. The Horse Economy

Chapter 7. Horses and Social Change

Chapter 8. Horse Knowledge

Chapter 9. More-Than-Human Geography and Equine Futures

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