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Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 /
Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Environmental history series ;
no. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.