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- The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: Animals, History, Culture
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Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional PlanningThe nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops.Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
Table of Contents
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- 3. Powering Urban Transit
- pp. 57-83
- 5. Stables and the Built Environment
- pp. 102-126
- 6. Nutrition: Feeding the Urban Horse
- pp. 127-148
- 7. Health: Equine Disease and Mortality
- pp. 149-164
- Epilogue: The Horse, the Car, and the City
- pp. 178-182
- Image Plates
- pp. 243-260
Additional Information
ISBN
9780801892318
Related ISBN(s)
9780801886003, 9781421400433
MARC Record
OCLC
503446031
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No