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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Wilson J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
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.