Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930

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.

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

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