The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

by Joel A. Tarr, Clay McShane, Joel Tarr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142140043X
• ISBN13: 9781421400433
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"