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Author Carleton, William R., author.

Title Fruit, fiber, and fire a history of modern agriculture in New Mexico / William R. Carleton
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

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Contents Part 1. Apples -- Before There Were Aliens, There Were Apples: Myths, Moths, and Modernity in New Mexico's Early Commercial Orchards -- Patent Lies, the "People's Business," and the Modern Core of Northern New Mexico Agriculture, 1940- -- Part 2. Cotton -- The Shifting Subjects of a Southwest King: Cotton, Agricultural Industrialization, and Migrations in the Interwar New Mexico Borderlands -- Diversification, Paternalism, and the Transnational Threads of Cotton in Southern New Mexico: The Industrial Ideal at Work at Stahmann Farms, 1926- -- Part 3. Chile -- Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabián García, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- The Evolution of a Modern Pod: The Industrial Chile and Its Storytellers in New Mexico
Summary 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
Subject Agriculture -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Apples -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Cotton -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Peppers -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Agriculture
Apples
Cotton
Peppers
New Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496226983
1496226984