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| Summary |
Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Apples -- Before There Were Aliens, There Were Apples: Myths, Moths, and Modernity in New Mexico's Early Commercial Orchards -- Patent Lies, the "People's Business," and the Modern Core of Northern New Mexico Agriculture, 1940- -- Part 2. Cotton -- The Shifting Subjects of a Southwest King: Cotton, Agricultural Industrialization, and Migrations in the Interwar New Mexico Borderlands -- Diversification, Paternalism, and the Transnational Threads of Cotton in Southern New Mexico: The Industrial Ideal at Work at Stahmann Farms, 1926- -- Part 3. Chile -- Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabián García, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- The Evolution of a Modern Pod: The Industrial Chile and Its Storytellers in New Mexico. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
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Agriculture. |
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New Mexico. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Apples -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
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Cotton -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
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Apples. |
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Peppers -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
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Peppers. |
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Cotton. |
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781496216168 1496216164 (DLC) 2020042839 (OCoLC)1198988410 |
| ISBN |
9781496226983 (electronic book) |
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1496226984 (electronic book) |
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9781496216168 |
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1496216164 |
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