"The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes...

The Milk Wars to End All War: Borden before and after World War I -- Becoming Modern: Borden Pioneers the Union of Advertising, Marketing, and Manufacturing -- The State of the Cotton South: The Failure of Capitalists, Scientists, and Governments to Remake or Replace the Region's Farmers --...

"Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Along with steam-powered machinery came migrant engineers, indispensable aliens who were well rewarded for their efforts. But they remained perennial outsiders, symbolic of Cuba's...

"In this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present."