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Title:

Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West / edited by Sterling Evans.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxv, 460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Agriculture--West (U.S.)--History.
Agriculture--Northwest, Pacific--History.
Agriculture--Canada, Western--History.
Agriculture--Mexico, North--History.
Agricultural laborers--North America--History.
Agricultural laborers--Mexico, North--History.

Other Authors:

Evans, Sterling, 1959- author. author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : transnational agricultural history in the North American West / Sterling Evans -- Part I. Agricultural connections across North America. Dependent harvests : grain production on the American and Canadian plains and the double dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Meat in the middle : converging borderlands in the US Midwest, 1865-1900 / Kristin Hoganson -- Little Liberia : the African-American agricultural colony in Baja California / Laura Hooton -- Part II. Commodity histories in the borderlands. Breaking sod or breaking even? : flax on the northern Great Plains and prairies, 1889-1930 / Joshua D. MacFadyen -- Colonizing the borderlands : citriculture and boosterism in Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1910-1930 / Tim Bowman -- Red and green on the border : the nature and technology of southern New Mexico's chile peppers / Todd Meyers -- Baja and beyond : toward an environmental and trans-regional history of the tomato industry of Baja California / Sterling Evans -- Part III. A sense of place for ranching and farming in the North American borderlands. Disturbed belt or rancher's paradise? : frontier exploration and place-making in a western Canadian-American borderland / Peter S. Morris -- Croplands and pastures : local agricultural landscape evolution on the transnational northern Great Plains, 1935-2006 / Andrew Dunlop -- Ranching across borders : the making of a transnational cattle industry in the Texas-Mexico borderlands, 1749-1945 / Alicia Dewey --
Part IV. Agricultural labor in the US-Mexico borderlands. Pecan shelling and its discontents : migrant industrialization in Depression-era San Antonio / John Weber -- From the golden age of cotton to sorghum : Mexican women's labor in agro-industries along the Texas-Tamaulipas borderlands / Sonia Hernández -- The betabeleras of Western Nebraska : gender, labor, and the beet sugar industry / Tisa M. Anders and Rosa Elia Cobos -- Días de descanso : reassessing the social history of los braceros and the transformative role of migration / Matt Caire-Pérez -- Part V. Agricultural labor in the US-Canada borderlands. Picking, posing, and performing : Puget Sound hop fields and income for aboriginal workers / Paige Raibmon -- "We are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways" : farmers and farm organizations across the forty-ninth parallel, 1905-1915 / Jason McCollom -- "Done for another year" : the resilience of Canadian custom harvesters on the North American plains / Thomas D. Isern and Suzzanne Kelley -- Part VI. Agriculture and transborder water issues. "There may be bloodshed" : the US Reclamation Service, localism, and water conflicts in the Montana-Alberta borderlands, 1900-1910 / Anthony E. Carlson -- The liquid frontier : water and sustainable development on the US-Mexico border / Stephen P. Mumme -- Afterword : NAFTA, agriculture, and the greater west / Sterling Evans.

Series:

Connecting the greater west

ISBN:

1623495687
9781623495688

OCLC:

(OCoLC)984512070

LCCN:

2017014054

Locations:

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