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Author:

Evans, Sterling, 1959-

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.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xxiii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Twine industry--Yucat©Łn (State)--Yucat©Łn (State)--History.
Twine industry--North America--History.
Yaqui Indians--History.
Great Plains--Economic conditions.

Notes:

"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 Kanas©Ưn 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." Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.

Contents:

On the history of binders and twine: agricultural and industrial transformations in North America -- Yucat©Łn's henequen industry: social and environmental transformations -- Yaquis in Yucat©Łn: imported slave labor and the Sonora connection -- Twine diplomacy: Yucat©Łn, 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 Yucat©Łn, 1916-1939 -- Competition and combines: the end of the henequen-wheat story -- Conclusion: bound in twine.

Series:

Texas A & M environmental history series ; no. 21

ISBN:

1585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77573782

LCCN:

2006039149

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)