| Edition |
First international edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-228) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Audumla -- 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) -- The cloven hoof -- 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). |
| Subject |
Cattle -- History.
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| Added Author |
Fraser, Evan D. G.
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| ISBN |
9780061353840 |
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0061353841 |
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9780061718793 International ed. |
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0061718793 International ed. |
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