Format:
Book
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.
Author:
Evans, Sterling, 1959-
Call Number:
338.476777 Evans
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Description:
xxiii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series:
Texas A & M environmental history series ; no. 21
Environmental history series ; no. 21.
Subjects:
Twine industry -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History.
Twine industry -- North America -- History.
Yaqui Indians -- History.
Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
1585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)