Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on May 28, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm031
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Richard Perren. Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3648-8, $99.95 (cloth).
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This is a very British book about the international meat industry. A volume in Ashgate's Modern Economic and Social History series, its principal contribution is charting the relationships between countries engaged in the meat business, especially the nations in Latin America, plus Australia and New Zealand that exported most of their production to the United Kingdom.
The author notes several times that Britain was "the largest market for internationally traded meat." His analysis through much of the volume is
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