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.
ISBN
9781585445967 (alk. paper)
1585445967 (alk. paper)
Imprint
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HD9999.C753 M58 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/767771
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, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.
Series
Environmental history series ; no. 21.
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.
