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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Horses & ponies
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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