03869nam 2200649Ia 450 991077959340332120230721010605.01-62349-047-21-60344-448-31-299-05226-6(CKB)2550000001004000(OCoLC)652361127(CaPaEBR)ebrary10436029(SSID)ssj0000531085(PQKBManifestationID)11337729(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000531085(PQKBWorkID)10569481(PQKB)11492653(MiAaPQ)EBC3037851(MdBmJHUP)muse1034(Au-PeEL)EBL3037851(CaPaEBR)ebr10436029(CaONFJC)MIL436476(EXLCZ)99255000000100400020061127d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBound in twine[electronic resource] the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 /Sterling Evans1st ed.College Station Texas A&M University Press20071 online resource (341 p.)Texas A & M environmental history series ;no. 21"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."1-58544-596-7 1-62288-001-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.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.Environmental history series ;no. 21.Twine industryMexicoYucatán (State)HistoryTwine industryNorth AmericaHistoryYaqui IndiansHistoryGreat PlainsEconomic conditionsTwine industryHistory.Twine industryHistory.Yaqui IndiansHistory.338.4/767771Evans Sterling1959-1086858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779593403321Bound in twine3804902UNINA