Meat Makes People Powerful : A Global History of the Modern Era /
From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, Americans have been among the most avid meat-eaters in the world, but long before that meat was not even considered a key ingredient in most civilizations...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part I. Foundations : meat eating in the nineteenth century
- 1. Nineteenth-century meat cultures
- 2. Nineteenth-century limited meat cultures
- part II. Promotions and results : scientific and state support for meat before World War II
- 3. Debating meat's dietary role
- 4. The state and meat
- 5. Meat culture transformations and new animal products 83
- part III. Meat becomes a global food : consumer acceptance and resistance after World War II
- 6. The political economy of meat after World War II
- 7. Meat workers as outcastes
- 8. A plague of pigs and other environmental dilemmas
- 9. Your safest course is to let meat alone
- 10. Meat in the twenty-first century.