The Horse in Human History Hardback - Hardcover

Kelekna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521516595 ISBN 13: 9780521516594

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book assesses the impact of the horse on human society from 4000 BC to AD 2000, by first describing initial horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes and the early development of driving and riding technologies. It traces the radiation of newly mobile equestrian cultures across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It then documents the transmission of steppe chariotry and cavalry to sedentary states, the high economic importance of the horse, and the socio-political evolution of equestrian empires, which from antiquity into the modern era expanded across continents.

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'... a fascinating study in which anthropology and history work well together.' Contemporary Review

Biografía del autor:

Pita Kelekna holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. Early fieldwork in indigenous societies of the Americas and later research conducted across the Middle East, Central and East Asia have well equipped her for this world-wide analysis of the importance of the horse in human society. She is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Anthropological Association.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521516595
• ISBN 13: 9780521516594
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476