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The horse : a galloping history of humanity / Timothy C.Winegard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--History.
- Horses.
- Animals and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 519 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, [2024]
- Contents:
- Everything equus: Taxonomy and terminology
- Introduction
- Part I: Early interactions. The dawn of the horse: equine evolution and bone wars
- Straight from the horse's mouth: I am the grass, let me work
- Eat like a horse: human hunting and vanishing habitats
- Hold your horses: steppes of domestication and the agricultural revolution
- A horse by any other name: the Indo-European domination of Eurasia
- Part II: Forge of empires. Behold a pale horse: apocalyptic chariots and imperial ambitions
- Riders on the storm: cavalry, assyrians, libraries, and scythians
- The education of Alexander: academia and empires
- My kingdom for a horse: the hitched fates of the Chinese and Roman empires
- Dark horses: feudal knights and contending faiths
- Road apples: the medieval agricultural revolution and the making of modern Europe
- Part III: Global trails. Shuttling the Silk Roads: Mongol hordes and Eurasian markets
- The return of the native: the horse and the Columbian exchange
- Big dogs of the Great Plains: horses, bison, and the downfall of Indigenous peoples
- Spiritual machines: the supremacy of the horse
- The final draft: war, mechanization, and medicine
- Equus rising: wild horses, therapeutic healing, and worldwide sports
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977- Horse.
- ISBN:
- 9780593186091
- 0593186095
- Publisher Number:
- 40032406774
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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