Maria-Aparecida Lopes

Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930 (eBook, ePUB)

How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. It unveils how the strengthening of the municipal abattoir system contributed to making fresh meat supplies-an indicator of living standards-regular and predictable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000414721
• Artikelnr.: 62056199

Autorenporträt

Maria-Aparecida Lopes is professor of Latin American history at California State University, Fresno.

Inhaltsangabe

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