Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West. 1st ed.

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図書

責任表示:

edited by Sterling Evans

言語:

英語

出版情報:

Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2017]

形態:

xxv, 460p ; 24cm

著者名:

Evans, Sterling, 1959-  

シリーズ名:

Connecting the greater west series ;

目次情報:

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

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

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書誌ID:

KB80018467

ISBN:

9781623495688 [1623495687] (hbk)