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Horses at work :

(Number (ISBN

0674031296 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780674031296 (cloth : alk. paper)

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b526967

Title Proper

Horses at work :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

harnessing power in industrial America /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ann Norton Greene.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 322 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index.

Text of Note

Why horses -- A landscape for horses -- Remaking horses -- Civil War horses -- Horses as industrial workers -- Studying horses -- From horse powered to horseless.

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Text of Note

New industrial machines and power sources, far from eliminating work animals from nineteenth-century America, required millions of horses to supply the energy necessary for industrial development. Horses were ubiquitous in cities and on farms, providing power for transportation, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. Mechanization actually increased the need for horsepower by expanding the range of tasks requiring it. Ann Greene argues for recognition of horses' critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and a new understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers. Rather than a result of "inevitable" technological change, it was Americans' social and political choices about power consumption that sealed this animal's fate. The rise and fall of the workhorse was defined by the kinds of choices that Americans made and would continue to make--choices that emphasized individual mobility and autonomy, and assumed, above all, abundant energy resources.--From publisher description.

Draft horses-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Horses-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Working animals-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

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Edition

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Greene, Ann Norton,1952-

Date of Transaction

20091111075659.0

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[Book]

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