The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century » (New Edition)

Clay McShane is a professor of history at Northeastern University. Joel A. Tarr is the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the 2008 winner of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for lifetime acheivement from the Society for the History of Technology.

Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr reveal the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. They explore how the horses were housed and fed, and how equine workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets.