The Horse in the City

Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8600-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Animals, History, Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcshane, Clay

Tarr, Joel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Thinking about Horses
1. Markets: The Urban Horse as a Commodity
2. Regulation: Controlling Horses and Their Humans
3. Powering Urban Transit
4. The Horse and Leisure: Serving the Needs of Different Urban Social Groups
5. Stables and the Built Environment
6. Nutrition: Feeding the Urban Horse
7. Health: Equine Disease and Mortality
8. The Decline and Persistence of the Urban Horse
Epilogue: The Horse, the Car, and the City
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tarr, Joel
Joel A. Tarr is the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for lifetime achievement from the Society for the History of Technology.

Mcshane, Clay
Clay McShane teaches history at Northeastern University.

Clay McShane teaches history at Northeastern University. Joel A. Tarr is the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for lifetime achievement from the Society for the History of Technology.