Joshua Specht

Continuing Lecturer of History, Monash University

Joshua Specht is a continuing lecturer of history at Monash University in Melbourne. He is the author of Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (2019).

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A cowboy on horseback herding cattle in an outdoor pen with a wooden fence and greenery in the background.

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Animals and humans

American bull

The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested

Joshua Specht