"This handsome book offers a telling glimpse into the often-charged world of horse breeding and horse trading in North America and Britain between 1800 and 1920." - Lawrence Scanlan (The Globe and Mail) "A full and complex picture of horse culture." - Karen Raber (American Historical Review) "Although draft animals have often been treated as footnotes to the rise of the machine, Margaret Derry demonstrates how a detailed treatment of horses can deepen the historical understanding of American and European societies." - George B. Ellenberg "Horses in Society is a lucid and thoughtful journey into the world of the horse at its short-lived zenith, and of the society that honoured and sustained it." - Max Foran (University of Toronto Quarterly) "Margaret E. Derry's Horses in Society is a remarkably interesting read . This is a ground-breaking work that will resonate with social, business, and military historians alike.

" - Warren M. Elofson (Business History Review) "An extremely valuable book that brings the history of science to bear on horse-breeding literature and sets both within the context of modern political economy." - Ann N. Greene (Canadian Historical Review) "Horses in Society is a valuable contribution that will interest historians of science and technology, military historians, and anyone interested in the history of animals, economics or the nineteenth century in general." - Darcy Ingram (Scientia Canadensis).