Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France.

The book's title nicely encapsulates Weil's major argument about animal ethics - that horses and humans have always stood in a precarious partnership. Although other horse studies explore many of these services, Weil's discussion of French debates about eating horse meat stands out as a rare study of hippophagy (Chapter 4). With these unique emphases, Weil makes original contributions to understanding how horses became the essential animals in human-animal relations during the 1800s. [Extracted from the article]