When Hay Was King: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
Hay was a linchpin of the early industrial energy regime. It was the primary fodder for working horses, who became more rather than less important over the 1800s. Though largely ignored by historians, hay was of comparable value to cotton and wheat in the nineteenth-century United States. The crop's...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 128; no. 1; pp. 177 - 214 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2023
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