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The Horse in the City

Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

By: Clay McShane,Joel Arthur Tarr

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The Horse in the City

Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

By: Clay McShane,Joel Arthur Tarr

Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning 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, 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.

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0801886007

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The Horse in the City

Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

By: Clay McShane,Joel Arthur Tarr

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Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

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The Automobile

A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

By: Clay McShane

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The Automobile

A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

By: Clay McShane

Originally published in 1997 and now re-issued with some updated material, this chronology lists the major events in the history of the automobile. The automobile cannot be understood without knowing about its pre-history, including technologies such as railroads, carriages and trolley cars. Material on these is included to the extent that they represented preludes to the modern car culture. The volume also includes material about the technology, design and production of cars and their manufacturers. The ancillary fields of oil production and refining and road building are also covered. Focussed mainly, but not exclusively on the USA this chronology discusses the car and its role in social, geographical and political change.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351666681

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9781351666688

The Automobile

A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

By: Clay McShane

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A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

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Routledge

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