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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Essig, Mark, 1969-     Subjects     Swine -- History.     Pork -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Essig, Mark, 1969-       by title:      Lesser beasts : a sn...         MARC Display

Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig / Mark Essig. by Essig, Mark, 1969- New York : Basic Books, c2015. Subjects Swine -- History.   Pork -- History. ISBN:  9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0465052746 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  Keep it simple -- Out of the wild -- "The pig is impure" -- "Of their flesh shall ye not eat" -- "Monstrosities of luxury" -- The forest pig -- "Swine eat things clean and unclean" -- "The husbandman's best scavenger" -- "All the mountains swarmed with them" -- ¿"A great unkindness for our swine" -- "The benevolent tyranny of the pig" -- "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs" -- The republic of porkdom -- "The swinish multitude" -- A growing prejudice against pork -- "The other white meat" -- Vices -- "Back to the start" -- Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 636.4 Es Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 636.4 Essig Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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