Horses in Society : : A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920 / / Margaret E. Derry.
Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power ? the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species? usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Modern Purebred Breeding: A Scientific or Cultural Method?
- Part One. The Breeding of Horses
- 2. The Light Horse
- 3. The Heavy Horse
- 4. The Farmer's Horse
- Part Two. An International Horse Market: The Remount Story
- 5. Finding Horses for the British Army
- 6. American Horses and War: A National and International Issue
- 7. Canada's Equine War Effort: A Story of Conflicting Interests
- Part Three. Governments and Horse Improvement
- 8. Understanding Heredity: The 1890 Report of the British Royal Commission on Horse Breeding
- 9. Producing Better Horses in the United States: Attempts to Control Fraudulent Activity and Market Share
- 10. The Canadian Experience in Horse Regulation: Continental and National Concerns
- Part Four. Society and Horses
- 11. Aspects of a Pervasive Horse Culture in Society
- 12. Conclusion
- Notes
- Note on Sources
- Index