The horse in the city : living machines in the nineteenth century / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr.

The horse in the city : living machines in the nineteenth century / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr.

Johns Hopkins paperback edition.

9781421400433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
142140043X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

English

xi, 242 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

SF311.3.U6 M37 2011

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animals, history, culture.

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