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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.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2007.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Texas A & M environmental history series ; no. 21
Environmental history series ; no. 21.
Note "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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index.
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.
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Subject Twine industry -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History.
Twine industry.
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
History.
Twine industry -- North America -- History.
North America.
Yaqui Indians -- History.
Yaqui Indians.
Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
Great Plains.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1880-1950
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Evans, Sterling, 1959- Bound in twine. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006039149 (OCoLC)77573782
ISBN 9781603444484 (electronic book)
1603444483 (electronic book)
9781585445967 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1585445967 (cloth ; alkaline paper)