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The War on Weeds in the Prairie West

Author : Clinton Lorne Evans

Publisher : University of Calgary Press

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 38,91 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Science

ISBN : 1552380297

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Book Description

Despite the fact that fighting weeds was of paramount importance to the agricultural development of Canada, there has scarcely been any research on understanding the origins and history of these lowly plants. The War on Weeds in the Prairie West is the first full-blown environmental history of weeds in western Canada.





The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer

Author : James L. Huston

Publisher : LSU Press

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 32,69 MB

Release : 2015-05-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0807159190

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JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.