Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780594092681
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
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In American Fields and Forests
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780594092681
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
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Of Forests and Fields
Author: Mario Jimenez SifuentezPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813576911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history... www.mariosifuentez.com
In American Fields and Forests
Author: Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural
Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
In American Fields and Forests (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332719761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Excerpt from In American Fields and Forests But the book is also something more than a collection of essays. It represents both the literary outcome and the literary inspiration of an important movement in American life, that which has come to be known as the Nature Movement. As to the origin and significance of this movement it would be hard to find a more perti nent statement than that contained in an essay in Mr. Dallas Lore Sharp's The Lay of the Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
American Forests
Author: Douglas W. MacCleeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America
Author: John C. KricherPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395928950
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Provides an introduction to patterns of forest ecology, looks at each of the major forest types of eastern North America, examines changes that occur as abandoned fields turn into forests, features background on the process of adaptation and natural selection, and describes forest changes in each of the four seasons.
Americans and Their Forests
Author: Michael WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.
Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests
Author: James H. MillerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437987451
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Invasions of non-native plants into forests of the Southern United States continue to go unchecked and only partially un-monitored. These infestations increasingly erode forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called non-native, exotic, non-indigenous, alien, or noxious weeds, they occur as trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ferns, and forbs. This guide provides information on accurate identification of the 56 non-native plants and groups that are currently invading the forests of the 13 Southern States. In additin, it lists other non-native plants of growing concern. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Forest Production for Tropical America
Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description