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Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Ann Norton Greene
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Description for Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Hardback. Argues for recognition of horses' critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and an understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 halftones, 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
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. The innovations that brought machinery to the forefront of American society made horses the prime movers of these machines for most of the nineteenth ... Read more
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. The innovations that brought machinery to the forefront of American society made horses the prime movers of these machines for most of the nineteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031296
SKU
V9780674031296
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About Ann Norton Greene
Ann Norton Greene is a Lecturer and Administrator in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Greene explains the paradoxical thriving of the 19th-century horse with a pleasing balance of narrative analysis and colorful detail.
Caleb Crain New York Times Book Review 20081130
Caleb Crain New York Times Book Review 20081130