| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8600-3.)
We have all heard of the machine in the garden, a metaphor for U.S. industrialization in the nineteenth century, when agriculture still held sway. In this informative book, the farm horse turned into a machine and left for the city to perform unending tasks in an urban milieu. Today the vestiges of those forgotten contributions remain only as a measurement of automobile engine strength calculated in "horsepower." The veteran authors of this urban history re-create that lost world in a fascinating story of the "Gelded" Age.	1
Working-class horses hauled wagons, coaches, and vehicles of unending description, even providing a job classification for their handlers as teamsters. They pulled railed streetcars before widespread electrification in the 1890s. Horses sped to the scenes of fires with apparatus in tow. They toiled to move industrial equipment and raw material in and around factories, machine shops, and other workplaces.	. . .

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