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Book Reports on the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States

Download or read book Reports on the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States written by United States. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States  Agriculture by Irrigation in the Western Part of the United States  and Statistics of Fisheries in the United States at the Eleventh Census  1890

Download or read book Reports of the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States Agriculture by Irrigation in the Western Part of the United States and Statistics of Fisheries in the United States at the Eleventh Census 1890 written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of United States Public Documents

Download or read book Catalogue of United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States Department of Commerce Publications  Catalog and Index Supplement

Download or read book The United States Department of Commerce Publications Catalog and Index Supplement written by United States. Dept. of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Basque Immigrants and Nevada s Sheep Industry

Download or read book Basque Immigrants and Nevada s Sheep Industry written by Iker Saitua and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry is a rich and complex exploration of the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada and the interior West. It looks critically at the Basque sheepherders in the American West and more broadly at the modern history of American foreign relations with Spain after the Second World War. Between the 1880s and the 1950s, the western open-range sheep industry was the original economic attraction for Basque immigrants. This engaging study tracks the development of the Basque presence in the American West, providing deep detail about the sheepherders’ history, native and local culture, the challenges they faced, and the changing conditions under which the Basques lived and worked. Saitua also shows how Basque immigrant sheepherders went from being a marginalized labor group to a desirable, high-priced workforce in response to the constant demand for their labor power. As the twentieth century progressed, the geopolitical tide in America began to change. In 1924, the Restrictive Immigration Act resulted in a truncated labor supply from the Basque Country in Spain. During the Great Depression and the Second World War, the labor shortage became acute. In response, Senator Patrick McCarran from Nevada lobbied on behalf of his wool-growing constituency to open immigration doors for Basques, the most desirable laborers for tending sheep in remote places. Subsequently, Cold War international tensions offered opportunities for a reconciliation between the United States and Francisco Franco, despite Spain’s previous sympathy with the Axis powers. This fresh portrayal shows how Basque immigrants became the backbone of the sheep industry in Nevada. It also contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of Basque immigration by exploring the role of Basque agricultural labor in the United States, the economic interests of Western ranchers, and McCarran’s diplomacy as catalysts that eventually helped bring Spain into the orbit of western democracies.

Book Landscapes of Promise

    Book Details:
  • Author : William G. Robbins
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2009-11-23
  • ISBN : 0295989696
  • Pages : 427 pages

Download or read book Landscapes of Promise written by William G. Robbins and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not only a creation of modern industrial society. Native Americans altered their environment in a number of ways, including the planned annual burning of grasslands and light-burning of understory forest debris. Early Euro-American settlers who thought they were taming a virgin wilderness were merely imposing a new set of alterations on an already modified landscape. Beginning with the first 18th-century traders on the Pacific Coast, alterations to Oregon's landscape were closely linked to the interests of global market forces. Robbins uses period speeches and publications to document the increasing commodification of the landscape and its products. "Environment melts before the man who is in earnest," wrote one Oregon booster in 1905, reflecting prevailing ways of thinking. In an impressive synthesis of primary sources and historical analysis, Robbins traces the transformation of the Oregon landscape and the evolution of our attitudes toward the natural world.

Book Research in Economic History

Download or read book Research in Economic History written by Christopher Hanes and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 29 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Understanding Aging During the Epidemiologic Transition" by Suchit Arora; "Estimating French Regional Income: Departmental Per Capita Gross Value Added, 1872-1911" by Paul Caruana-Galizia; "Improve and Sit.

Book Unruly Waters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenna Lang Archer
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0826355889
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Kenna Lang Archer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.

Book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin     of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit  Mich

Download or read book Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Finding List of the Social Sciences  Political Science  Law  and Education

Download or read book Finding List of the Social Sciences Political Science Law and Education written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit  Mich

Download or read book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: