William R Carleton

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire

A History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781496216168
• ISBN-10: 1496216164
• Artikelnr.: 61648136

Autorenporträt

William R. Carleton is the editor of Edible New Mexico and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Apples
1. Before There Were Aliens, There Were Apples: Myths, Moths, and Modernity
in New Mexico’s Early Commercial Orchards
2. Patent Lies and the “People’s Business”: The Modern Core of Northern New
Mexico Agriculture, 1940–80
Part 2. Cotton
3. The Shifting Subjects of a Southwest King: Cotton, Agricultural
Industrialization, and Migrations in the Interwar New Mexico Borderlands
4. Diversification, Paternalism, and the Transnational Threads of Cotton in
Southern New Mexico: The Industrial Ideal at Work at Stahmann Farms,
1926–70
Part 3. Chile
5. Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabián García, the New Mexican
Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico
Borderlands
6. The Evolution of a Modern Pod: The Industrial Chile and Its Storytellers
in New Mexico
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index