Red meat republic : a hoof-to-table history of how beef changed America /
How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly ce...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2019]
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| Cyfres: | Histories of economic life.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77mqs |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Introduction ; Making beef modern ; How beef transformed America ; Beyond the United States ; A steer's eye view of the history of American capitalism ; Book overview
- 1 War. The golden age of the plains nomads : buffalo and the spread of horses across the plains ; "A helping hand over this wild and destitute country" : life on the Texas frontier and the Red River War ; Beef handouts and the reservation system ; From war to criminality : retelling the story ; Conclusion
- 2 Range. "As large as all Yorkshire" : buying, counting, and managing cattle ; Land : private and public ; "Cowboy-ism" : cattle workers and western mythology ; "Doomed of its own excesses " : hard winters and the collapse of the industry ; Conclusion
- 3 Market. The cattle marketing system ; From ranch to slaughter ; Horses, water, and stampedes : the ecology of cattle trailing ; Cattle disease and the regulation of mobility ; Between trail and market ; Making a deal ; Conclusion
- 4 Slaughterhouse. Labor ; Refrigerators on wheels ; The decline of wholesale butchering and the rise of dressed beef ; Early regulatory approaches ; Conclusion
- 5 Table. Buying beef ; Canned beef and its critics ; Beef and hierarchy ; Concluding with a meat riot ; Conclusion.