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UNINA9910453070303321 |
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Autore |
Evans Sterling <1959-> |
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Bound in twine [[electronic resource] ] : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 / / Sterling Evans |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2007 |
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1-62349-047-2 |
1-60344-448-3 |
1-299-05226-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (341 p.) |
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Collana |
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Texas A & M environmental history series ; ; no. 21 |
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Twine industry - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History |
Twine industry - North America - History |
Yaqui Indians - History |
Electronic books. |
Great Plains Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"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." |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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On the history of binders and twine: agricultural and industrial transformations in North America -- Yucatán's henequen industry: social and environmental transformations -- Yaquis in Yucatán: imported slave labor and the Sonora connection -- Twine diplomacy: Yucatán, the United States, and Canada during the "sisal situation" of 1915 -- Prison-made twine: the role of the penitentiaries in the henequen-wheat complex -- Decline, depression, and drought: economic and environmental change in the Great Plains and Yucatán, 1916-1939 -- Competition and combines: the end of the henequen-wheat story -- Conclusion: bound in twine. |
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UNICASSBL0686653 |
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Autore |
Fränkel, Hermann |
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Dichtung und Philosophie des fruhen Griechentums : Eine Geschichte der Griechischen Epik, Lyrik und Prosa bis zur Mitte des funften Jahrhunderts / Hermann Frankel |
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[2. uberarb. Aufl] |
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