David Chaffetz Raiders, Rulers and Traders recensie, review en informatie geschiedenisboek over The Horse and the Rise of Empires. Op 30 juli 2024 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company het geschiedenisboek over de rol van het paard tijdens de opkomst van grote rijken en mogendheden, geschreven door de Britse historicus David Chaffetz. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek is niet verkrijgbaar.
David Chaffetz Raiders, Rulers and Traders recensie en review
- “A wise and jaunty chronicle… Mr. Chaffetz weaves his tale with great descriptive verve… Gripping.” (Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal)
- “Vividly narrated … reads like an enthralling travel memoir…. Chaffetz’s account of how horses and landscapes shaped the distant past glimmers with myriad fascinating insights, seamlessly woven into a cohesive whole… [Chaffetz] exudes a contagious enthusiasm and curiosity. In Raiders, Rulers, and Traders, readers will happily follow his journey as he chronicles how closely our history is intertwined with the magnificent horse.” (Deborah Hopkinson, BookPage)
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- Auteur: David Chaffetz (Engeland)
- Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
- Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
- Omvang: 448 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 32,50
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het geschiedenisboek over The Horse and the Rise of Empires
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.
