Horses in Society by Margaret E. Derry PAPERBACK 9781487520366

Horses in Society\nby Margaret E. Derry\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Margaret E. Derry\nTitle: Horses in Society\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781487520366\nISBN-10: 1487520360\nRRP: \u00A332.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBefore 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 p.