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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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Montana; The Magazine of Western History
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April 1, 2008
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Bound in Twine THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF THE HENEQUEN-WHEAT COMPLEX FOR MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PLAINS, 1880-1950 Sterling Evans Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2007. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index, xxiii + 314 pp. $42.00 cloth.
Agricultural history has come a long way since the early days of narrowly focused studies centering mainly on economics. It has moved in the direction of rural social history, and it has become more interdisciplinary as well as more international in its focus. Bound in Twine is a superb example of the trend. It not only examines agricultural history from an international perspective but also considers ...
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