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Capitalist pigs : pigs, pork, and power in America /
"Pigs are everywhere in United States history. They cleared frontiers and built cities (notably Cincinnati, once known as Porkopolis), served as an early form of welfare, and were at the center of two nineteenth-century "pig wars." American pork fed the hemisphere; lard literally grea...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Morgantown, WV :
West Virginia University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Making American gehography
- Hogs at home on the range
- Working people's food
- Pigs and the urban slop bucket
- To market, to market
- Swine plagues
- Making bacon and white meat
- Science and the swineherd
- Coda: the future of hogs in America.