My chapter ‘Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism’ has been published in Open Acces (doi.org/10.4324/9781...) in the fantastic Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. All you ever wanted to know about why and how meat, milk and hides became global commodities.
This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th
