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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders - David Chaffetz

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

The Horse and the Rise of Empires

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Buch | Softcover
448 Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-11033-0 (ISBN)
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A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest.
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance.

Over time, horses came to power mighty empires in Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, and, later, Russia. Genghis Khan and the thirteenth-century Mongols offer the most famous example, but from ancient Assyria and Persia, to the seventeenth-century Mughals, to the high noon of colonialism in the early twentieth century, horse breeding was indispensable to conquest and statecraft.

Scholar of Asian history David Chaffetz tells the story of how the horse made rulers, raiders, and traders interchangeable, providing a novel explanation for the turbulent history of the “Silk Road,” which might be better called the Horse Road. Drawing on recent research in fields including genetics and forensic archeology, Chaffetz presents a lively history of the great horse empires that shaped civilization.

David Chaffetz, regular Asian Review of Books contributor, member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and author of A Journey through Afghanistan and Three Asian Divas, has traveled extensively in Asia for more than forty years. He divides his time between Lisbon and Paris.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.8.2025
Zusatzinfo 30 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-324-11033-3 / 1324110333
ISBN-13 978-1-324-11033-0 / 9781324110330
Zustand Neuware
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