Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial AmericaHarvard University Press, 30 nov 2008 - 322 páginas Historians have long assumed that new industrial machines and power sources eliminated work animals from nineteenth-century America, yet a bird’s-eye view of nineteenth-century society would show millions of horses supplying the energy necessary for industrial development. Horses were ubiquitous in cities and on farms, providing power for transportation, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. On Civil War battlefields, thousands of horses labored and died for the Union and the Confederacy hauling wagons and mechanized weaponry. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
1 Why Horses | 10 |
2 A Landscape for Horses | 43 |
3 Remaking Horses | 83 |
4 Civil War Horses | 119 |
5 Horses as Industrial Workers | 164 |
6 Studying Horses | 200 |
7 From Horse Powered to Horseless | 244 |
Epilogue | 275 |
Horse Population and Power | 281 |
Notes | 285 |
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Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America Ann Norton GREENE,Ann Norton Greene Vista previa restringida - 2009 |