| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Sterling Evans. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00.)

This book's jaw-breaking title is unfortunate, for it may turn readers away from an original story that contributes to several historical fields. Sterling Evans's ambitious and comprehensive monograph on the international impact of henequen—a plant whose fibers were used to make binding twine for harvested grain—will be useful for environmental, economic, and agricultural historians, as well as Latin American specialists. Bound in Twine is a sprawling case study in globalization from a century ago, where the production of raw materials in the Yucatan became dependent on the market demand of developed nations to the north.

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