Horses in Society
Subtitle: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: July 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802091123
Subjects: Animal breeding; History of specific subjects; Horses & ponies; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Horses; History; History - General History; History: World; The Americas; North American; History / North America; 19th century; 20th century; Breeding; Horse industry
First sentence: Expanding industrialization and more sophisticated technology resulted in a growing demand for horses over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and created and ever widening geographic trade in them.
Description: "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 heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated an intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism."--Jacket.