Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Sydney Watts

In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, merchant butchers, stall workers, and tripe dealers pledged to provide a steady supply of healthful meat to urban elites and the working poor. Meat Matters considers the formation of the butcher guild and family firms, debates over royal policy and regulation, and the burgeoning role of consumerism and public health. The production and consumption of meat becomes a window on important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462111
• ISBN13: 9781580462112
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"