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LEADER: 03048cam a22003254a 4500
001 2006039149
003 DLC
005 20080215083224.0
008 061127s2007 txuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006039149
020 $a9781585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1585445967 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHD9999.C753$bM58 2007
082 00 $a338.4/767771$222
100 1 $aEvans, Sterling,$d1959-
245 10 $aBound in twine :$bthe history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 /$cSterling Evans.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCollege Station :$bTexas A&M University Press,$c2007.
300 $axxiii, 314 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aEnvironmental history series ;$vno. 21
500 $a"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."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.
505 0 $aOn 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.
650 0 $aTwine industry$zMexico$zYucatán (State)$xHistory.
650 0 $aTwine industry$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aYaqui Indians$xHistory.
650 0 $aGreat Plains$xEconomic conditions.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006039149.html