MIT
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural HistorySterling Evans Professor of History, University of Oklahoma“Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology, Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities Web Perspective”
This presentation will address the henequen and sisal fiber trade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Farmers in the United States and Canada depended on fibers grown in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico for harvesting grain crops with binders—an implement used until the advent of combine harvesters. Thus, a proto-NAFTA trade pattern evolved, with industrial, diplomatic, economic, political, labor, and environmental effects. The story reflects a commodities web model, which includes geo-political, transnational, and globalization analyses.
Friday, November 6, 2009 2:30 to 4:30 pm Building E51 Room 095 Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, CambridgeSponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at [email protected].
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