Wagon, chariot, and carriage : symbol and status in the history of transport /
| Основен автор: | Piggott, Stuart. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
[New York] :
Thames and Hudson,
1992.
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Съдържание:
- Pt. 1. The ox-wagon from the farmyard to the court. From sledge to wheels
- Technology and its constraints
- The first ox-wagons : function and status
- The wagon burials
- The ox-wagon in decline
- The ox-cart of the kings
- Epilogue : ox-carts and British Rail
- Pt. 2. Chariots and chariotry. Equids in Mesopotamia : ass, onager and horse
- Chariots and chariotry : the basic requirements
- The price of prestige : the chariot package-deal
- Origins and dispersal
- The Indo-European minefield
- Chariots at large
- The chariot package-deal taken up : the Near East
- The Greeks and their chariot deal
- The Chinese phenomenon
- Pt. 3. Princes on horseback. The East
- The Greek and Roman world
- From classical to medieval
- Display and majesty
- From the old horsemanship to the new
- Work-horse and pack-horse
- Women on horseback
- Riding and clothing : Greeks and barbarians
- Rome and after
- Knights in armour : from prehistory into history
- Interlude : the horse as a princely gift
- Horses as gods and sacrifices
- The sacrificial horse
- Horse burials in prehistory
- Early medieval Europe
- Horse and shaman
- Horses for paradise
- Pt. 4. From chivalry to carriage. From chariot to pleasure-car in the ancient East
- The Pazyryk ceremonial carriage
- Wagon and carriage in the West
- The pivoted front axle from prehistory to history
- Tilt-wagons and carts in antiquity
- The medieval covered pleasure carriage
- From tilt-carriage to coach
- The coach accepted
- The coach as prestige gift : Elizabeth and Russia
- The Indian gift : James I and Jahangir
- Coaches to China : the great incompatibility
- The end : the glamour of an anachronism.