05234nam 2200697 450 991046019580332120200520144314.00-19-191676-5(CKB)3710000000383013(EBL)1973784(OCoLC)905969550(SSID)ssj0001493951(PQKBManifestationID)11919138(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001493951(PQKBWorkID)11514879(PQKB)11043320(MiAaPQ)EBC1973784(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341505(PPN)185515290(Au-PeEL)EBL1973784(CaPaEBR)ebr11039080(CaONFJC)MIL760388(EXLCZ)99371000000038301320150410h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHorse nations the worldwide impact of the horse on indigenous societies post-1492 /Peter MitchellFirst edition.New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (477 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2015.0-19-100881-8 0-19-870383-X Includes bibliographical references and index.""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: donâ€?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""; ""â€?A profound material revolutionâ€?""; ""Riding into the sunset""; ""The deer hunters""; ""Notes""; ""5: North America II: The Central and Northern Plains""; ""Introduction""; ""Ecological background""; ""Peopling the Plains""; ""Keeping horses on the Plains""; ""â€?Big dogsâ€? 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""; ""â€?Do not trust the horseâ€?""; ""Notes""; ""7: South America I: Caribbean Deserts and Tropical Savannahs""; ""La Guajira: introducing the WayuÂ?u""; ""Smugglers of the Caribbean""; ""Horses and other livestock""; ""Explaining horses the WayuÂ?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 KadiweÂ?u, Brazilâ€?s â€?Indios cavaleirosâ€?""; ""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""'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.Oxford scholarship online.HorsesHistoryHorsemanshipHistoryElectronic books.HorsesHistory.HorsemanshipHistory.636.1009Mitchell Peter569697MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460195803321Horse nations2214684UNINA