Author: P. CLAUSSEN (Chevalier.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Flax Movement; Its National Importance and Advantages, with Directions for the Preparation of Flaxcotton, and the Cultivation of Flax ... Second Edition
Author: P. CLAUSSEN (Chevalier.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Flax Movement
Author: Pierre ClaussenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Flax Americana
Author: Joshua MacFadyenPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773553967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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.
Catalog of the Library of the Statistical Society
Author: Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Statistical Society ...
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalogue. [With] Index to the subject-matter of the works contained in the Catalogue
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Author: Royal statistical society librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Biographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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