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The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Thomas A. Kinney
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Description for The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Hardback. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27, 15 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; KNDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 749.
In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day-one every six minutes. Across ... Read more
In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day-one every six minutes. Across ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Industry and Society
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801879463
SKU
V9780801879463
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About Thomas A. Kinney
Thomas A. Kinney is an associate professor of history at Bluefield College in Virginia.
Reviews for The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
A work of great value... Kinney offers a sophisticated analysis of the growth and eventual collapse of this mostly forgotten major US enterprise, and he presents his findings in a readable fashion. Choice 2005 An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the manufacture of horse-drawn vehicles... An important read for transport historians.
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