Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930 : How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Foodways and Diet in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro 2. Changing Patterns of Spatial Distribution in Rio de Janeiro’s Meat Provisioning System (c. 1850?c. 1880) 3. Charque for All: Technology, Taste, and Status in Rio de Janeiro (c. 1850?c. 1900) 4. Brazil as a Tropical Producer: Improving and Supplying Cattle for Rio de Janeiro (c. 1850?c. 1930) 5. The Public Abattoir Banishes Charque from the Carioca Table (c. 1890?c. 1910) 6. Meatpacking Plants and a New Politics of Provision in Rio de Janeiro (c. 1910?c. 1930) Epilogue: The Fragilities of Globalization: Beef and the Environment