[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, November 6, 2009

[Margo Collett]

                                                                          MIT
  Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History



Sterling 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, Cambridge



Sponsored 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 mcollett at mit.edu.
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