LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joshua specht

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  • Red Meat Republic
    Joshua Specht
    How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food systemBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country. This book tells the remarkable story of ...
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  • An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby’s The Columbian Exchange
    Etienne Stockland / Joshua Specht
    One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stand...
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  • An Analysis of Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
    Etienne Stockland / Joshua Specht
    Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ, re-examining familiar evidence to establish new connections that in turn allowed h...
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    11,40 €