Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Sterling, 1959-

Series:

Environmental history series ; no. 21.

Texas A & M environmental history series ; no. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twine industry--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--History.

Twine industry.

Twine industry--North America--History.

Yaqui Indians--History.

Yaqui Indians.

History.

Great Plains--Economic conditions.

Great Plains.

Economic conditions.

North America.

Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Physical Description:

xxiii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2007]

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.

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-305) and index.

ISBN:

9781585445967

1585445967

OCLC:

77573782