Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950

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Texas A&M University Press, 2007 - 341 pagina's
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 the twine required for the machine's operation. Implement manufacturers discovered that the best binder twine was made from henequen and sisal--spiny, fibrous plants native to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
The double dependency that subsequently developed between Mexico and the Great Plains of the United States and Canada affected the agriculture, ecology, and economy of all three nations in ways that have historically been little understood. These interlocking dependencies--identified by author Sterling Evans as the "henequen-wheat complex"--initiated or furthered major ecological, social, and political changes in each of these agricultural regions.
Drawing on extensive archival work as well as the existing secondary literature, Evans has woven an intricate story that will change our understanding of the complex, transnational history of the North American continent.
 

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On the History of Binders and Twine Agricultural and Industrial Transformations in North America
1
Yucatáns Henequen Industry Social and Environmental Transformations
32
Yaquis in Yucatán Imported Slave Labor and the Sonora Connection
67
Twine Diplomacy Yucatán the United States and Canada during the Sisal Situationof 1915
91
PrisonMade Twine The Role of the Penitentiaries in the Henequen Wheat Complex
121
Decline Depression and Drought Economic and Environmental Change in the Great Plains and Yucatán 1916
161
Competition and Combines The End of the Henequen Wheat Story
197
Bound in Twine
232
Notes
241
Bibliography
283
Index
307
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STERLING EVANS is professor and Louise Welsh Chair in History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica (1999), and editor of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the 49th Parallel (2006). His PhD is from the University of Kansas.

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