Stephen Davies

Gebundenes Buch

The Passing of the Horse

A Transformation of the World

Beschreibung

For thousands of years horses played a central part in the lives of people in many parts of the world. They provided mobility and played a major or dominant part in warfare. They were the main source of power other than human labour, so much so that we still measure the power of engines in horsepower. The advent of industrialisation and the steam engine, far from finishing their role, actually accentuated it, and horses became essential to nineteenth century agriculture and the life and functioning of the great modern cities of the Victorian Age.

Autor

Stephen Davies is Head of Education at the IEA. From 1979 until 2009 he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and Program Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University in Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913087968
• ISBN-10: 1913087964
• Artikelnr.: 63562652