The horse a galloping history of humanity
"From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history"--
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New York :
Dutton,
[2024]
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Table of 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.
