| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 242 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Animals, history, culture |
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Animals, history, culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking about horses -- Markets: The urban horse as a commodity -- Regulation: controlling horses and their humans -- Powering urban transit -- The horse and leisure: serving the needs of different urban social groups -- Stables and the built environment -- Nutrition: feeding the urban horse -- Health: equine disease and mortality -- the decline and persistence of the urban horse -- Epilogue: the horse, the car, and the city |
| Summary |
"The 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 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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-233) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
| Subject |
Draft horses -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Urban animals -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Draft horses
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Urban animals
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Verkehrswirtschaft
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Pferd
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Arbeitspferd -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Transport -- Pferd -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Pferd -- Transport -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Pferd -- Stadt -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Stadt -- Pferd -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tarr, Joel A. (Joel Arthur), 1934-
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| LC no. |
2006030213 |
| ISBN |
9781435692640 |
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1435692640 |
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9780801892318 |
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0801892317 |
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9781421400433 |
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142140043X |
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