Horses in Society
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 twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to hei...
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 twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to hei...
