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Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
- Title
- Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans.
- Author
- Evans, Sterling, 1959-
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xxiii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawing on extensive archival work as well as the existing secondary literature, Evans has woven an intricate story that binds together the labor, social, agricultural, political, diplomatic, and environmental history of the henequen-wheat complex. Although the agricultural industry eventually moved beyond this nexus, three nations were irreversibly (and not altogether favorably) altered by it. For example, this study offers a number of perspectives for considering the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In subtle ways, the account Evans gives will change our understanding of the complex, transnational history of the North American continent."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Texas A & M environmental history series ; no. 21
- Uniform Title
- Environmental history series ; no. 21.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Some portions of this work have previously been published, in slightly different form. Parts of the introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 4 appeared previously as "Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950," Agricultural History 80 (winter 2006): 35-63, and are reprinted here with permission from the University of California Press. Parts of chapter 5 have appeared in three separate articles: "Prison-Made Binder Twine: North Dakota's Connection with Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century," North Dakota History 68 no. 1.: 20-36, (c) 2001, State Historical Society of North Dakota, Used by permission; "From Kanasín to Kansas: Mexican Sisal, Binder Twine, and the State Penitentiary Binder Twine Factory, 1890-1940" appeared in Kansas History 24 (winter 2001-2002): 276-99, Kansas State Historical Society; and "Entwined in Conflict: The South Dakota State Prison Twine Factory and the Controversy of 1919-1921," appeared in South Dakota History 35 (summer 2005): 95-124, South Dakota State Historical Society. These portions are used here with permission from those journals."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : dependent harvests -- 1. On the history of binders and twine : agricultural and industrial transformations in North America -- 2. Yucatan's henequen industry : social and environmental transformations -- 3. Yaquis in Yucatan : imported slave labor and the Sonora connection -- 4. Twine diplomacy : Yucatan, the United States, and Canada during the "sisal situation" of 1915 -- 5. Prison-made twine : the role of the penitentiaries in the henequen-wheat complex -- 6. Decline, depression, and drought: economic and environmental change in the Great Plains and Yucatan, 1916-1939 -- 7. Competition and combines : the end of the henequen-wheat story -- Conclusion : bound in twine.
- ISBN
- 9781585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006039149
- OCLC
- ocm77573782
- 77573782
- SCSB-5357427
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries