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 heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism.
Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 636.1009/034
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442675872 0802091121
- LCCN
- SF283
- LCCN Item number
- D47 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 302 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00601110 (OCoLC)431556172 (CaOOCEL)418843
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- 1 Modern Purebred Breeding: A Scientific or Cultural Method? 22
- Part One. The Breeding of Horses 46
- 2 The Light Horse 48
- 3 The Heavy Horse 67
- 4 The Farmer’s Horse 98
- Part Two. An International Horse Market: The Remount Story 118
- 5 Finding Horses for the British Army 120
- 6 American Horses and War: A National and International Issue 140
- 7 Canada’s Equine War Effort: A Story of Conflicting Interests 160
- Part Three. Governments and Horse Improvement 176
- 8 Understanding Heredity: The 1890 Report of the British Royal Commission on Horse Breeding 178
- 9 Producing Better Horses in the United States: Attempts to Control Fraudulent Activity and Market Share 191
- 10 The Canadian Experience in Horse Regulation: Continental and National Concerns 205
- Part Four. Society and Horses 222
- 11 Aspects of a Pervasive Horse Culture in Society 224
- 12 Conclusion 251
- Notes 268
- Note on Sources 302
- Index 310
- A 310
- B 310
- C 311
- D 312
- E 312
- F 313
- G 313
- H 313
- I 314
- J 315
- K 315
- L 315
- M 315
- N 315
- O 316
- P 316
- Q 317
- R 317
- S 318
- T 319
- U 320
- V 320
- W 320
- X 321
- Y 321
