Joshua MacFadyen Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent 9780773553460

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Автор: Joshua MacFadyen
Название: Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent
ISBN: 9780773553460
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

История индустриализации и развития промышленности

Сырьевые отрасли промышленности

Сельское хозяйство и смежные отрасли

Экология, охрана окружающей среды, экологичные технологии

ISBN-10: 0773553460
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 368
Вес: 0.70 кг.
Дата издания: 10.10.2018
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 42 photos, 9 maps, 9 tables, 4 diagrams
Размер: 231 x 165 x 28
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Mining industry,Environmental science, engineering & technology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness,HISTORY / General,HISTORY / North America,SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Подзаголовок: A history of the fibre and oil that covered a continent
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canadas first and most important industrial crop. Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonites and other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business in the late nineteenth century as multinational linseed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills. Flax cultivation spread across the northern plains and prairies, particularly along the edges of dryland settlement, and then into similar ecosystems in South Americas Pampas. Joshua MacFadyens detailed examination of archival records reveals the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northern Great Plains. He demonstrates how international networks of scientists, businesses, and regulators attempted to predict and control the crops frontier geography, how evolving consumer concerns about product quality and safety shaped the market and its regulations, and how the nature of each region encouraged some forms of business and limited others. The northern flax industry emerged because of border-crossing communities. By following the plant across countries and over time Flax Americana sheds new light on the ways that commodities, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.
Дополнительное описание: Environmental science, engineering and technology|History of the Americas|Agribusiness and primary industries

Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent, Joshua MacFadyen