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BL
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635076
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| Main Entry
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McShane, Clay
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| Title & Author
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The horse in the city : : living machines in the nineteenth century /\ Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: The Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2007
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| Series Statement
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Animals, history, culture
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xi, 242 p., [18] p. of plates :: ill., map ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780801886003 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0801886007 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-233) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Thinking about horses -- Markets: The urban horse as a commodity -- Regulation: controlling horses and their humans -- Powering urban transit -- The horse and leisure: serving the needs of different urban social groups -- Stables and the built environment -- Nutrition: feeding the urban horse -- Health: equine disease and mortality -- the decline and persistence of the urban horse -- Epilogue: the horse, the car, and the city
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| Subject
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Draft horses-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Urban animals-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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| LC Classification
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SF311.3.U6M37 2007
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| Added Entry
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Tarr, Joel A., (Joel Arthur),1934-
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