Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History (Paperback)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments 
Prelude 

Beat One · Horses and People
1. Evolution
2. Connection 
3. Tracing Domestication 

Beat Two · The Cart
4. Wheels 
5. Chariots 

Beat Three · The Rider
6. Oracle Bones 
7. Horseback 
8. Horse People 
9. The Silk and Tea Roads 
10. Steppe Empires 
11. Desert and Savanna Empires 

Beat Four · The World
12. Out to Sea 
13. The Return 
14. Pampas 
15. Into the Pacifi c and Down Under 
16. Iron Horses 
17. Hoofprints 

List of Illustrations 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index