Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900 - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807182826ISBN-10:807182826UPC:9780807182826Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:United States, History, Animal SportsBook Topic:19th Century, Horse RacingSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCR834K9V9
Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900
From the colonial era to the beginning of the twentieth century, horse racing was by far the most popular sport in America. Great numbers of Americans and overseas visitors flocked to the nation's tracks, and others avidly followed the sport in both general-interest newspapers and specialized periodicals.
Thoroughbred Nation offers a detailed yet panoramic view of thoroughbred racing in the...Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807182826ISBN-10:807182826UPC:9780807182826Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:United States, History, Animal SportsBook Topic:19th Century, Horse RacingSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCR834K9V9
Natalie A. Zacek is a senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester. Her previous book, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776, won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize.
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