The Horse in the City

Author: Clay McShane
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 142140043X

The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Animals, History, Culture)

The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. Download The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Animals, History, Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 corps Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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