The horse in the city living machines in the nineteenth century
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
2007
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| Schriftenreihe: | Animals, history, culture
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-233) and index 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 242 p., [18] p. of plates) |
| ISBN: | 1435692640 9781435692640 |