Title The war on weeds in the Prairie West : an environmental history / Clinton L. Evans

Published Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Weeds and Culture -- Good Husbandry and the Relationship Between People and Weeds in Great Britain, 1500-1900 -- From Colony to Nation: The Transformation of Immigrant Culture in Ontario, 1800-1867 -- Dominion of the West, 1867-1905 -- War on the Western Front, 1906-1945 -- The Bomb and Aftermath -- Conclusion -- The 1865 Canada Thistle Act of Upper Canada -- Line drawings of the leading cast of weeds -- Colour Plates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This book spans four centuries of weed history from sixteenth-century England to mid-twentieth century Canada. Features; Evans looks at topics such as weed biology/ecology, environmental history, herbicide development, noxious weed legislation, and the emergence of weed science as a distinct field of scientific inquiry; Provides an in-depth chronicle of the war on weeds that raged in Western Canada between 1800 and 1950 and the evolution of the relationship between humans and weeds; Provides an environmental history of weeds that covers the events in Upper Canada, the Prairies, and Northern United States; Gives a brief history of herbicides and their widespread acceptance by prairie farmers in the middle of the 1900s; Evans draws on extensive primary sources and considers the delicate connection between human culture and the natural world; The book is particularly timely because of debates on the use of pesticides and herbicide resistance crops, such as canola; Fills a need for a detailed survey of agricultural development and settlement on the Prairies.; In this provocative book, Evans suggests that herbicides have simply prolonged the war on weeds, and that by breeding herbicide resistance into crops, agrochemical companies are attempting to secure long-term herbicide and genetically-modified seed sales by forcing farmers to continue to fight a war that can never be won Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index Notes Print version record Subject Weeds -- Control -- Prairie Provinces -- History Weeds -- Control -- Ontario -- History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General. Weeds -- Control Ontario Prairie Provinces Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585402906 9780585402901 1552380297 9781552380291 1280945559 9781280945557 9781552384756 1552384756

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