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Farming across Borders - A Transnational History of the North American West (Hardcover)
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Farming across Borders - A Transnational History of the North American West (Hardcover)
Series: Connecting the Greater West Series
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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."
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