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Autore |
Mitchell Peter <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Horse nations : the worldwide impact of the horse on Indigenous societies post-1492 / / Peter Mitchell |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-100882-6 |
0-19-191676-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (477 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Horses - History |
Horsemanship - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2015. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover ""; ""Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenoussocieties Post-1492 ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Colour Plates""; ""List of Tables""; ""1: Introducing Horse Nations""; ""Beginnings""; ""At the borderlands of empires""; ""Why horses?""; ""Of big dogs and complex horses""; ""Courses for horses (or themes for Horse Nations)""; ""Approaching Horse Nations: structure and organization""; ""A note on nomenclature""; ""Notes""; ""2: Ancestors""; ""Introduction""; ""Evolution""; ""The horse family today"" |
""The biology of the horse""""Hunters and horses""; ""After the ice""; ""The taming of the horse""; ""Horse Nations of Eurasia""; ""Notes""; ""3: A Prodigal Return""; ""Introduction""; ""Humans arrive in horseland""; ""They shoot horses: don�t they?""; ""Extinction: north""; ""Extinction: south""; ""A world without horses""; ""The return of the horse""; ""Flourishing mightily""; ""Notes""; ""4: North America I""; ""Introduction""; ""Before the horse""; ""The horses of Santiago""; ""Singing for horses""; ""Fighting on horses""; ""Keeping people safe and horses holy"" |
""Lords of the Southern Plains""""Comanche imperialism""; ""�A profound material revolution�""; ""Riding into the sunset""; ""The deer hunters""; ""Notes""; ""5: North America II: The Central and Northern |
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Plains""; ""Introduction""; ""Ecological background""; ""Peopling the Plains""; ""Keeping horses on the Plains""; ""�Big dogs� and little dogs: changes in transportation and settlement""; ""Buffalo runners: the horse as hunter""; ""Of furs and bison robes: trade and gender in the age of the horse""; ""Horses as instruments of politics and war""; ""Imag(in)ing the horse"" |
""Horses of medicine and myth""""Equestrian villagers and equestrian nomads""; ""Horse wars""; ""Notes""; ""6: North America III: West of the Rockies""; ""Introduction""; ""Have horses, will raid: horses and slaves in the Great Basin""; ""Becoming like the Plains: the horse on the Columbia Plateau""; ""Horse-raiders of California""; ""�Do not trust the horse�""; ""Notes""; ""7: South America I: Caribbean Deserts and Tropical Savannahs""; ""La Guajira: introducing the Wayu�u""; ""Smugglers of the Caribbean""; ""Horses and other livestock""; ""Explaining horses the Wayu�u way"" |
""The Llanos: going without the horse?""""Jesuits and Horse Nations at the heart of South America""; ""Enter, the horse""; ""The missions and after""; ""The Kadiwe�u, Brazil�s �Indios cavaleiros�""; ""Notes""; ""8: South America II: The Southern Cone""; ""Geography and ethnography of the Southern Cone""; ""The War of Arauco""; ""Making horses Mapuche""; ""Free spirits: horses and cattle on the Pampas and in Patagonia""; ""Uniting the Cone: a regional pastoral economy""; ""Becoming Araucanian, becoming Tehuelche""; ""Archaeological perspectives on horses and other livestock"" |
""Patagonian horses in life and death"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Horse Nations' provides the first globally comparative study of the impact of the horse on the indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its (re-)introduction as a result of European contacts and settlement after Columbus' first voyage to the Americas in 1492. |
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