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The horse in the city : living machines in the nineteenth century /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Animals, history, culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.