Joshua Specht: 3 books

Book cover of Red Meat Republic

Red Meat Republic

A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

by Joshua Specht
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complex By 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...
Book cover of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

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,...
Book cover of The Columbian Exchange
by Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

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...
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