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MEAT, MODERNITY, AND THE RISE OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
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| By: |
Paula Young Lee (Editor), Dorothee Brantz, Kyri Claflin |
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Hardback |
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£49.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1584656980 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781584656982 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2008 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
An interdisciplinary look at the rise of the slaughterhouse in nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas |
| Synopsis: |
Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to the public's increasing lack of tolerance for "dirty" butchering practices, corresponding to changing norms of social hygiene and fear of meat-borne disease. The slaughterhouse, in Europe and the Americas, rationalized animal slaughter according to capitalist imperatives. What is lost and what is gained when meat becomes a commodity? What do the sites of animal slaughter reveal about our relationship to animals and nature? Essays by the best international scholars come together in this cutting-edge interdisciplinary volume to examine the cultural significance of the slaughterhouse and its impact on modernity. Contributors include: Dorothee Brantz, Kyri Claflin, Jared Day, Roger Horowitz, Lindgren Johnson, Ian MacLachlan, Christopher Otter, Dominic Pacyga, Richard Perren, Jeffrey Pilcher, and Sydney Watts. |
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51 b&w illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of New Hampshire Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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