1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003390020203316

Titolo

Bioremediation : methods and protocols / edited by Stephen P. Cummings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Humana Press, copyr. 2010

ISBN

978-1-60761-438-8

Descrizione fisica

X, 285 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Collana

Methods in molecular biology ; 599

Springer Protocols

Disciplina

628.5

Soggetti

Inquinamento - Controllo

Collocazione

628.52 BIO

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968233403321

Autore

Evans Sterling <1959->

Titolo

Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 / / Sterling Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-62349-047-2

1-60344-448-3

1-299-05226-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Texas A & M environmental history series ; ; no. 21

Disciplina

338.4/767771

Soggetti

Twine industry - Mexico - Yucatan (State) - History

Twine industry - North America - History

Yaqui Indians - History

Great Plains Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.



Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and the twine required for the machine's operation. Implement manufacturers discovered that the best binder twine was made from henequen and sisal-spiny, fibrous plants native to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The double dependency that subsequently developed between Mexico and the Great Plains of the United States and Canada affected the agriculture, ecology, and economy of all three nations in ways that have historically been little understood. These interlocking dependencies-identified by author Sterling Evans as the "henequen-wheat complex"-initiated or furthered major ecological, social, and political changes in each of these agricultural regions. Drawing on extensive archival work as well as the existing secondary literature, Evans has woven an intricate story that will change our understanding of the complex, transnational history of the North American continent. STERLING EVANS is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in history at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba. He is the editor of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests. Evans holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996696057103316

Autore

Taylor Kevin J

Titolo

Seasonable Lecture, Or A Most Learned Oration : Disburthened From Henry Vvalker, A Most Judicious Quondam Iron-monger, A Late Pamphleteere And Now (too Late Or Too Soone) A Double Diligent Preacher. As It Might Be Delivered In Hatcham Barne The Thirtieth Day Of March Last, Stylo Novo. Taken In Short Writing By Thorny Ailo And Now Printed In Words At Length, And Not In Figures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ProQuest, UMI, 1642

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia