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

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

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