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Horses at work : harnessing power in industrial America /

New industrial machines and power sources, far from eliminating work animals from nineteenth-century America, required millions of horses to supply the energy necessary for industrial development. Horses were ubiquitous in cities and on farms, providing power for transportation, construction, manufa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greene, Ann Norton, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why horses
  • A landscape for horses
  • Remaking horses
  • Civil War horses
  • Horses as industrial workers
  • Studying horses
  • From horse powered to horseless.