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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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At table
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At table series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Washington Irving, Cattle, and Indian Territory -- 2. Civilizing Cattle in the Writings of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper -- 3. Henry David Thoreau, Regional Cuisine, and Cattle -- 4. Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- 5. The Cowboys Are Indians in The Squatter and the Don -- 6. Southern Cuisine without Cattle in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Stories -- 7. Industrial-Global Cattle in Upton Sinclair and Winnifred Eaton -- Conclusion -- Notes |
| Summary |
Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cattle in literature.
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Cattle in literature. |
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Cattle -- United States -- History.
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Cattle. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Livestock -- United States -- History.
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Livestock. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781496218643 1496218647 (DLC) 2020038663 (OCoLC)1192303453 |
| ISBN |
9781496227010 (electronic book) |
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1496227018 (electronic book) |
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9781496218643 |
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1496218647 |
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