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

• Autore: Evans Sterling <1959->
• Pubblicazione: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/767771
• Soggetto topico: Twine industry - Mexico - Yucatan (State) - History; Twine industry - North America - History; Yaqui Indians - History
• Soggetto geografico: Great Plains Economic conditions
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bound in twine
• ISBN: 1-62349-047-2; 1-60344-448-3; 1-299-05226-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910968233403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Environmental history series ; ; no. 21.