The War On Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History

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作者：Clinton L. Evans
文件大小：4.13MB
文件类型：文字PDF
语言：英语
出版：University of Calgary Press，2002年
页数：328
书签：无

内容简介：
This book spans four centuries of weed history from sixteenth-century England to mid-twentieth century Canada. It features Evans looks at topics such as weed biology/ecology, environmental history, herbicide development, noxious weed legislation, & the emergence of weed science as a distinct field of scientific inquiry. It provides an in-depth chronicle of the war on weeds that raged in Western Canada between 1800 & 1950 & the evolution of the relationship between humans & weeds. It also provides an environmental history of weeds that covers the events in Upper Canada, the Prairies, & Northern United States. It gives a brief history of herbicides & their widespread acceptance by prairie farmers in the middle of the 1900s. Evans draws on extensive primary sources & considers the delicate connection between human culture & the natural world. This book is particularly timely because of debates on the use of pesticides & herbicide resistance crops, such as canola. It fills a need for a detailed survey of agricultural development & settlement on the Prairies. In this provocative book, Evans suggests that herbicides have simply prolonged the war on weeds, & that by breeding herbicide resistance into crops, agrochemical companies are attempting to secure long-term herbicide & genetically-modified seed sales by forcing farmers to continue to fight a war that can never be won.

Despite the fact that fighting weeds was of paramount importance to the agricultural development of Canada, there has scarcely been any research on understanding the origins and history of these lowly plants. Finally, historian Clinton Evans gives weeds the attention they deserve. In this ground-breaking study that spans four centuries of weed history, Evans focuses on the evolution of the relationship between people and weeds in the formative years of western Canada. This book documents the arrival of weeds with seed from England in the sixteenth century, how these foreign seeds survived and thrived on the plains of North America for centuries to come, and governmental perceptions and legislation against weeds. Highlighting topics such as weed biology and ecology, noxious weed legislation, and \"weed science,\" Evans considers the delicate connections between human culture and the natural world.

目录：
Preface
Introduction
1 Weeds and Culture 1
2 Good Husbandry and the Relationship Between People and Weeds in Great Britain, 1500-1900 19
3 From Colony to Nation: The Transformation of Immigrant Culture in Ontario, 1800-1867 53
4 Dominion of the West, 1867-1905 77
5 War on the Western Front, 1906-1945 109
6 The Bomb and Aftermath 151
Conclusion 179
App. 1 The 1865 Canada Thistle Act of Upper Canada 191
App. 2 Line Drawings of the Leading Cast of Weeds 195
App. 3: Colour Plates 207
Notes 215
Bibliography 263
Index 287

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