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Flax Americana

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Author : Joshua MacFadyen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-10-10

Flax Americana written by Joshua MacFadyen and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with History categories.

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 Canada’s 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 America’s Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen’s 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 crop’s 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.

Flax Americana

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Author : Joshua MacFadyen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-10-10

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 Canada's 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 America's Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen's 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 crop's 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.

The Present Status Of Flax Culture In The United States

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Author : Charles Richards Dodge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

The Present Status Of Flax Culture In The United States written by Charles Richards Dodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Flax categories.

Flax Culture

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Author : Edmund A. Whitman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

Flax Culture written by Edmund A. Whitman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Flax categories.

The Encyclopaedia Americana

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

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Flax Shall It Be Free Or Protected

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Author : Leeson, J.R., & Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

Flax Shall It Be Free Or Protected written by Leeson, J.R., & Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Flax categories.

Stoddart S Encyclopaedia Americana

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

Stoddart S Encyclopaedia Americana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.

European System Of Flax Culture Americanized And Adapted To The Local Conditions Of U S A Especially Puget Sound

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Author : Augustus Willoughby Thornton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917

European System Of Flax Culture Americanized And Adapted To The Local Conditions Of U S A Especially Puget Sound written by Augustus Willoughby Thornton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Flax categories.

A Report On Flax Culture For Seed And Fiber In Europe And America

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Author : Charles Richards Dodge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

A Report On Flax Culture For Seed And Fiber In Europe And America written by Charles Richards Dodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Fiber plants categories.

Report Of The Flax And Hemp Commission

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Author : United States. Congress. Flax and Hemp Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865

Report Of The Flax And Hemp Commission written by United States. Congress. Flax and Hemp Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Cotton categories.

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