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

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Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to glue 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 ladies working Within the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between.

As Evans concludes, “society as a complete (regardless of in what country) continuously ignores the role of agriculture prior to now and the present.” Farming across Borders takes crucial step toward cultivating awareness and working out of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West without reference to lines on a map. Within the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”

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