Horse Nations
Subtitle: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780198703839
Subjects: Horses; Horsemanship; Horsemen and horsewomen
Description: The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains. Horse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the horse on the Indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its introduction as a result of European contact post-1492. Drawing on sources in a variety of languages and on the evidence of archaeology, anthropology, and history.