| Main Title |
Beyond beef : the rise and fall of the cattle culture / |
| Author |
Rifkin, Jeremy.
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| Publisher |
Dutton, |
| Year Published |
1992 |
| OCLC Number |
24504620 |
| ISBN |
0525934200; 9780525934202 |
| Subjects |
Beef cattle. ;
Beef industry. ;
Beef industry--Environmental aspects. ;
Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--History. ;
Beef--Social aspects. ;
Food habits. ;
United States, West. ;
Vleesindustrie. ;
Voedingsgewoonten. ;
Rundvee. ;
Sociale aspecten. ;
Bovinocultura de corte (aspectos sócio-econãomicos) ;
Hábitos alimentares. ;
Bovins de boucherie. ;
Industrie bovine. ;
Bovins--Commercialisation--âEtats-Unis (ouest)--Histoire. ;
Habitudes alimentaires. ;
Viehhandel. ;
Geschichte. ;
Fleischindustrie. ;
Umweltbelastung. ;
Fleischproduktion. ;
Ernährungsgewohnheit. ;
USA--Weststaaten.
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ENAM |
SF207.R54 1992 |
|
Region 7 IRC Library/Kansas City,KS |
03/19/1993 |
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| Collation |
xi, 353 pages ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-340) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Part one. Cattle and the making of Western civilization -- Sacrifice to slaughter -- Gods and goddesses -- Neolithic cowboys -- Gifts and capital -- Holy cow -- Matadors and Machismo -- Cattlizing the Americas -- British beefeaters -- Let them eat potatoes -- Corpulent cows and opulent Englishmen -- Part two. How the West was won -- Rail links and cattle crossings -- The great bovine switch -- Cowboys and Indians -- Grass is gold -- The politics of "corned beef" -- Barbed wire and land scams -- Part three. The industrialization of beef -- The beef trust -- The disassembly line -- Modern meat -- The automated jungle -- The world steer -- Part four. Feeding cattle and starving people -- Cattle everywhere -- Malthus and meat -- The sociology of fat -- Marbled specks of death -- Cows devour people -- Part five. Cattle and the global environmental crisis -- Ecological colonialism -- Tropical pastures -- Hoofed locusts -- Kicking up dust -- Quenching thirst -- Warming up the planet -- Part six. The consciousness of beef-eating cultures -- The psychology of beef -- Meat and gender hierarchies -- Beef, class, and nationalism -- Cattle and the frontier mentality -- The hamburger and the highway culture -- The deconstruction of modern meat -- Cattle and cold evil -- Beyond beef. |
| Place Published |
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c1992. |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
91032285 |
| Merged OCLC records |
748282913 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
19930317184328 |
| Language |
ENG |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
00987pam 2200337 a 45150 |
