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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Prologue
1. Domesticated for Milk: The entanglement begins, 40,000–2000 BCE
2. Horses for Heroes: Horse herders enter the settled world, 2000–500 BCE
3. Engines of Empire: Iran and India, 500 BCE–400 CE
4. Desperately Seeking Heavenly Horses: China, 200 BCE–400 CE
5. Silk Road or Horse Road: China and India, 100 BCE–500 CE
6. Equine Mania: China, the Turks, and the world, 500–1100 CE
7. Hunting for Supremacy: Eurasia, 900–1200 CE
8. As Far as Our Horses’ Hooves Run: Genghis Khan’s empire, 1206–1368
9. Riding the Whirlwind: Timür and his descendants, 1370–1747
10. The Empires Strike Back: China and Russia, 1584–1800
11. The Great Game: British India and Russia, 1739–1881
12. March, Trot, Gallop, Charge: The last horse powers, 1890–1919
Epilogue: A royal Buzkashi game, 1950–1973
Acknowledgments
Appendix: A Note on Money
Time Line
Glossaries
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Also by David Chaffetz
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