Thesis ID: CBB394694042

Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906 (2014)

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"Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906," examines the consolidation of the American meatpacking and ranching industries. Supplying urban consumers with inexpensive beef required a form of industrialized animal husbandry that had high costs, both human and environmental. In spite of these costs - the source of widespread criticism and public unease - this system has persisted in roughly the same shape for nearly a century. I argue this resilience depends on a set of widely accepted narratives that made centralized meatpacking appear natural and inevitable. Whether rooted in cultural discourses justifying Indian land expropriation or technological arguments rationalizing market concentration, particular narratives enabled the historical processes integral to the rise of big meatpacking. "Red Meat Republic" critiques these narratives and offers an alternate account of industrial animal husbandry's origins.

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Authors & Contributors
Ardeleanu, Constantin
Brantz, Dorothee
Moser, Peter
Ogle, Maureen
Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
Rees, Jonathan
Journals
Agricultural History
Economic History Review
Environment and History
History and Technology
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Publishers
University of California, Berkeley
Böhlau Verlag
Duke University Press
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Johns Hopkins University Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Food industry and trade
Meat industry and trade
Industrial agriculture
Industrialization
Livestock
Agriculture
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Mexico
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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