Horse Nations : The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492.

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 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 -- The horse at war and at the chase -- Horses and hierarchies -- They make a desert and call it peace -- Notes -- 9: The Old World: Southern Africa and Australasia -- Reins of power: horses and colonial settlement in southern Africa -- Horse raiders of the Maloti-Drakensberg -- Chasing eland, taking stock -- How horses became baboons -- Images of horsepower -- The end of the ride -- Australia: bringing in the brumby -- Aborigines meet the horse -- The archaeology of Australian pastoralism -- Water monsters and people-carrying dogs: the horse in New Zealand -- Notes -- 10: Putting Horse Nations in Context -- The variety of Horse Nations -- The similarities of Horse Nations -- Of perilous frontiers and pastoralists -- Why were Horse Nations not found everywhere? -- Horses as agents of change -- Questions for the future -- Horse Nations today -- Notes -- Appendix-Self-Designations of Native American Peoples -- References.

Colour Plates Acknowledgements -- Index.

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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