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Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West /
Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distrib...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Connecting the greater west series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Transnational agricultural history in the North American West / Sterling Evans
- Agricultural connections across North America. Dependent harvests: grain production on the American and Canadian plains and the double dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans
- Meat in the middle: converging borderlands in the US Midwest, 1865-1900 / Kristin Hoganson
- Little Liberia: the African-American agricultural colony in Baja California / Laura Hooton
- Commodity histories in the borderlands. Breaking sod or breaking even? Flax on the northern great plains and prairies, 1889-1930 / Joshua D. MacFadyen
- Colonizing the borderlands: citriculture and boosterism in Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1910-1930 / Tim Bowman
- Red and green on the border: the nature and technology of southern New Mexico's chile peppers / Todd Meyers
- Baja and beyond: toward an environmental and trans-regional history of the tomato industry of Baja California / Sterling Evans
- A sense of place for ranching and farming in the North American borderlands. Disturbed belt or rancher's paradise? Frontier exploration and place-making in a western Canadian-American borderland / Peter S. Morris
- Croplands and pastures: local agricultural landscape evolution on the transnational northern Great Plains, 1935-2006 / Andrew Dunlop
- Ranching across borders: the making of a transnational cattle industry in the Texas-Mexico borderlands, 1749-1945 / Alicia Dewey.
- Agricultural labor in the US-Mexico borderlands. Pecan shelling and its discontents: migrant industrialization in Depression-era San Antonio / John Weber
- From the golden age of cotton to sorghum: Mexican women's labor in agro-industries along the Texas-Tamaulipas borderlands / Sonia Hernandez
- The betabeleras of Western Nebraska: gender, labor, and the beet sugar industry / Tisa M. Anders and Rosa Elia Cobos
- Dias de descanso: reassessing the social history of los braceros and the transformative role of migration / Matt Caire-Perez
- Agricultural labor in the US-Canada borderlands. Picking, posing, and performing: Puget Sound hop fields and income for aboriginal workers / Paige Raibmon
- "We are tied together ... in a hundred different ways": farmers and farm organizations across the forty-ninth parallel, 1905-1915 / Jason McCollom
- "Done for another year": the resilience of Canadian custom harvesters on the North American plains / Thomas D. Isern and Suzzanne Kelley
- Agriculture and transborder water issues. "There may be bloodshed": the US Reclamation Service, localism, and water conflicts in the Montana-Alberta borderlands, 1900-1910 / Anthony E. Carlson
- The liquid frontier: water and sustainable development on the US-Mexico border / Stephen P. Mumme
- Afterword: NAFTA, agriculture, and the greater west / Sterling Evans
- Contributors.