Awards
- Commended for Lewis Mumford Prize 2007 (United States)
- Commended for SACRPH Mumford Book Prize 2007 (United States)
- Commended for Society for American City and Regional Planning History Lewis Mumford Prize 2007 (United States)
- Commended for Society for American City and Regional Planning History Lewis Mumford Prize 2007.
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 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Clay McShane (Northeastern University) ,
Joel Tarr (Carnegie Mellon University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780801886003
ISBN 10: 0801886007
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 10 September 2007
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p>It should be required reading for anyone interested in the environmental history of urban life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.--Brian Black Environmental History (01/01/2008)
Valuable contribution not only to urban history but also to nineteeth-century economic, business, environmental, and social history. -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/departments/history/faculty/Joel_Tarr.html
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.
