Beef : the untold story of how milk, meat, and muscle shaped the world / Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser.

Author/creator Rimas, Andrew
Other author Fraser, Evan D. G.
Format Book
Edition1st international ed.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : William Morrow, ©2008.
Descriptionxviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents From horn to hoof (the ecological and evolutionary origins of the cow: prehistory-8000 B.C.) -- The food of the gods (the origin of religion: 8000 B.C.-400 B.C.) -- The brown bull of Ulster (wealth and honor: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1500) -- Gene pools and paint pots (the birth of modernity: the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) -- Cattle kings and dairy queens (the industrialization of food: the nineteenth century) -- The $300 sirloin (cattle in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008002906
ISBN9780061353840
ISBN0061353841
ISBN9780061718793 (International ed.)
ISBN0061718793 (International ed.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks SF195 .R56 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold