Where Have All the Horses Gone?: How Advancing Technology Swept American Horses from the Road, the Farm, the Range and the Battlefield - Couverture souple

Levin, Jonathan V.

 
9781476667133: Where Have All the Horses Gone?: How Advancing Technology Swept American Horses from the Road, the Farm, the Range and the Battlefield
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ISBN 10 : 1476667136 ISBN 13 : 9781476667133
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2017

Synopsis

A century ago, horses were ubiquitous in America. They plowed the fields, transported people and goods within and between cities and herded livestock. About a million of them were shipped overseas to serve in World War I. Equine related industries employed vast numbers of stable workers, farriers, wainwrights, harness makers and teamsters. Cities were ringed with fodder-producing farmland, and five-story stables occupied prime real estate in Manhattan.

Then, in just a few decades, the horses vanished in a wave of emerging technologies. Those technologies fostered unprecedented economic growth, and with it a culture of recreation and leisure that opened a new place for the horse as an athletic teammate and social companion.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan V. Levin's previous writings covered the environment, local history, and economic history. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476667136
ISBN 13 
9781476667133
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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Personne responsable
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