Mining and Metallurgy

Mining and Metallurgy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1750
Release: 1909
Genre: Mineral industries
ISBN:

Contains abstracts of professional and technical papers.

Farming across Borders

Farming across Borders
Author: Timothy P. Bowman
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1623495695

Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach. Sterling Evans has curated nineteen essays to explore the contours of “big” agricultural history. Crops and commodities discussed include wheat, cattle, citrus, pecans, chiles, tomatoes, sugar beets, hops, henequen, and more. Toiling over such crops, of course, were the people of the North American West, and as such, the contributing authors investigate the role of agricultural labor, from braceros and Hutterites to women working in the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between. As Evans concludes, “society as a whole (no matter in what country) often ignores the role of agriculture in the past and the present.” Farming across Borders takes an important step toward cultivating awareness and understanding of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West regardless of lines on a map. In the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Leeds (England). Libraries and Arts Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1870
Genre:
ISBN: