Author : Joshua Specht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691209180
Red Meat Republic by Joshua Specht Pdf
"By 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 centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--