Title Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West / edited by Sterling Evans

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series Connecting the greater west Connecting the greater west series. Contents 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 Summary 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." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Agriculture -- West (U.S.) -- History Agriculture -- Northwest, Pacific -- History Agriculture -- Canada, Western -- History Agriculture -- Mexico, North -- History Agricultural laborers -- North America -- History Agricultural laborers -- Mexico, North -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Agricultural laborers Agriculture Western Canada North Mexico North America Pacific Northwest West United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Evans, Sterling, 1959- editor, author. Evans, Sterling, 1959- Transnational agricultural history in the North American West LC no. 2017020481 ISBN 9781623495695 1623495695

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