Bound in Twine
Title | Bound in Twine PDF eBook |
Author | Sterling D. Evans |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2013-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1622880013 |
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 Yucatán 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.
Bound in Twine
Title | Bound in Twine PDF eBook |
Author | Sterling Evans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-01-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781623490478 |
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 Yucatán 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. STERLING EVANS is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in history at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba. He is the editor of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests. Evans holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
Cord Age
Title | Cord Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Cordage |
ISBN |
The American Reaper
Title | The American Reaper PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Gordon M Winder |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-07-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1409483002 |
The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. Much previous historical research into industrial networks focuses on industrial districts within metropolitan centres, but by focusing on harvesting - a typically rural technology - this book is able to analyse the spread of technological knowledge through a series of local networks and across national boundaries. In doing so it argues that the industry developed through a relatively stable stage from the 1850s into the 1890s, during which time many firms shared knowledge within and outside the US through patent licensing, to spread the diffusion of the American style of machines to establishments located around the industrial world. This positive cooperation was further enhanced through sales networks that appear to be early expressions of managerial firms. The book also reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. It unleashed an unchecked competitive market economy with destructive tendencies throughout the transnational 'American reaper' networks; a previously stable and expanding production system. This is significant because the rise of corporate capital in this industry is usually explained as an outworking of national natural advantage, as an ingenious harnessing of science and technology to solve production problems, and as a rational solution to the problems associated with the worst forms of unregulated competition that emerged as independent firms developed from small-scale, artisanal production to large-scale manufacturers, on their own and within the separate and isolated US economy. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.
General Catalog No. 5
Title | General Catalog No. 5 PDF eBook |
Author | Wm. Frankfurth Hardware Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1642 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Hardware |
ISBN |
Comparison of Tariff Acts
Title | Comparison of Tariff Acts PDF eBook |
Author | United States |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Tariff |
ISBN |
Meyer Brothers Druggist
Title | Meyer Brothers Druggist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Pharmaceutical industry |
ISBN |