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• Cover
• Praise page
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Ryding and Breakinge
• 2 Manège to Field
• 3 Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others
• 4 Remounts and Wastage
• 5 Hunting in the Trenches
• Postscript
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Horses in History
• PLATES

A thorough examination of the evolution of horsemanship and cavalry over the centuries.

"From the middle of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century, cavalry experienced significant changes in doctrine, deployment, and the equipment it used. The Men-at-Arms, carrying lances and arranged in large formations, were replaced by more lightly-armed cavalrymen fighting with swords and pistols in new and more flexible tactical formations. These transformations have often been interpreted as a symbol of decline in the cavalry, an archaic arm, a conservator of chivalric values, incapable of adapting to the new transformations in the art of war. This book aims to deconstruct this simplifying vision by focusing on an analysis of what constitutes the principal combat action of heavy cavalry: the charge. Whilst centred on France this study refers to the whole of Europe. The battlefields of the French Wars of Religion to the War of the Spanish Succession are examined in detail, along with the types of cavalry, their equipment and how they performed on the battlefield" -- Provided by publisher

The book provides a comprehensive survey of the role of the horse in Indian history. It covers role of horses from trade routes, to historic battles, from Maratha princesses to women polo players

• State of affairs
• Early response to heavier-than-air flight: threats in the press and cavalry reaction, 1903-1917
• Developing a relationship in the 1920s
• National economy: aviation versus the cavalry
• Autogiros and mechanization: the 1930s.

• Introduction,
• 1. The Horse Trade in Eighteenth-century South Asia,
• 2. The Silent Frontier of South Asia, c. ad 1100-1800,
• 3. The Eurasian Frontier after the First Millennium ad: Reflections Along the Fringe of Time and Space,
• 4. Warhorse and Post-Nomadic Empire in Asia, c. 1000-1800,
• 5. The Embarrassment of Political Violence inEurope and South Asia, c. 1100-1800,
• 6. Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovationduring the Eighteenth Century,
• 7. Warhorse and Gunpowder in India, c. ad 1000-1850,
• 8. Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad
• 9. The Warband in the Making of Eurasian Empires.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans' observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled agriculture. Such inner frontiers could only be bridged by the ongoing movements of Turkish, Afghan, Rajput and other warbands. Like the most spectacular examples of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empires, they all based their power on the exploitation of the most lethal weapon of that time: the warhorse. In discussing the breeding and trading of horses and their role in medieval and early modern South Asian warfare, Gommans also makes some thought-provoking comparisons with Europe and the Middle East. Since the Indian frontier is part of the much larger Eurasian Arid Zone that links the Indian subcontinent to West, Central and East Asia, the final essay explores the connected and entangled history of the Turko-Mongolian warband in the Ottoman and Timurid Empires, Russia and China.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)