Sterling Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sterling Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sterling |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Two Dams in the Desert: An Environmental and Agricultural History of Water in Sonora, Mexico
This article seeks to address the connections between the development of dams and irrigation systems in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico with agricultural modernisation in the mid to late twentieth century. It evaluates agricultural, environmental and social results of this water development through the lens of political ecology. It argues that in Mexico a 'hydraulic bureaucracy' emanating from the national capital Mexico City governed wat…
Technocrats and the politics of drought and development in twentieth-century Brazil
Technocrats and the politics of drought and development in twentieth-century Brazil." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 43(2), pp. 298–299
Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River by Patrick Dearen
Reviewed by: Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River by Patrick Dearen Sterling Evans (bio) Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River. By Patrick Dearen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. 257. $29.95. Halfway through reading this compelling book, I had already decided to adapt it for my course on the environmental history of the American West. Bitter Waters nicely deals with an often overlooked, but certainly beautiful…
Crossing the Green Line: Frontier, environment and the role of bandeirantes in the conquering of Brazilian territory
This article’s objective is to present, via bibliographic research, the territorial makeup of colonial Brazil (1500-1822) and the Brazilian historical approach at the beginning of the twentieth century that sought to relate questions and concepts of frontier, territoriality, and nature in the historic role of the bandeirante movement. The goal here is to address territorial and geographic questions, but also environmental ones, based on historica…
Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using Historical Evidence, 1840s-1940s. Edited by Willem van Schendel
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands
Slavery in the North American Borderlands The editors of Linking the Histories of Slavery state that the goal of their volume is that by introducing “unexpected scenes" and by “challeng[ing] assumptions about how slavery worked across North America," they want readers to “expand th
Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition
The editors, translators, and publishers of this new book have done the world an enormous favor. They have given Latin Americanist historians, geographers, and political scientists, as well as many other scholars, a newly translated version of a very important work, making it available in a better form than offered in previous editions, especially in English. Alexander von Humboldt's classic Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1826) was such a…
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Agricultural Production and Environmental History
The traditional focus of agricultural history has been the study of rural landscapes, societies, and economies, as well as agricultural production and technologies. In contrast, environmental history has adopted a more interdisciplinary research approach, offering both ecological and political analyses, and addressing the world's current environmental crises from a historical perspective. Drawing on the environmental perspective, this article exp…
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
Book Review| January 01 2011 Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. By Karl Jacoby. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. xix + 358 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $32.95 (cloth). Sterling Evans Sterling Evans University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History…
Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
The result of a 1993 conference on Yucatecan history and culture, this edited volume brings together a well-known group of yucatecólogos to offer new interpretations about older regional topics. That it took 17 years to go from conference to book is unfortunate, although Gilbert Joseph’s epilogue (“Some Final Thoughts on Regional History and the Encounter with Modernity at Mexico’s Periphery”) is new and weaves in some, but not all, of the more r…
Donald Pisani
Recent Developments in Transnational Environmental History
The field of environmental history in the past twenty years has become an important discipline for every continent on earth. Yet this internationalization has taken a more recent transnational turn, which this essay addresses. Now various scholars are asking questions about ecological connections between countries, about ecosystems that cross international borders, and about the environmental impact of transnational industries, export agriculture…
Canada's Population in Global Context: An Introduction to Social Demography, by Frank Trovato Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads , edited by Daniel Drache The Spirit of Industr…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article 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. xxvi, 314 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-596-7.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, J…
Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940
Book Review| April 01 2008 Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940 Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940. Craig Miner. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 259–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; Next Year Country: Dus…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 Get access Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Evans Sterling. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00.) Jeff Bremer …
Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community
Book Review| July 01 2007 Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community. E. N. Anderson. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 427–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.427 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community. Agr…
The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel
Journal Article The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel Get access The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. Edited by Evans Sterling. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxv + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliographies, index. $49.96, £37.95.) Dominique Brégent-Heald Dominique Brégent-Hea…
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Book Review| October 01 2006 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 97–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501788 Cite Icon Cite Sha…
The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History
Book Review| October 01 2006 The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History. Simon M. Evans. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 482–484. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.482 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History. Agricultural History 1 J…
Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950
Sterling Evans, Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950, Agricultural History, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Winter, 2006), pp. 35-63
Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950
For nearly sixty years, roughly 1880 to 1950, before the affordability and wide-spread use of combines, grain production in the American and Canadian Great Plains was dependent on harvesting with binders. Binders cut the grain stalks and then tied them into bundles with twine that farmhands later would gather into shocks to await threshing. The majority of the twine used was made from fiber from agave plants (sisal and henequen) from Mexico’s Yuc…
Tequila: A Natural and Social History
Book Review| July 01 2005 ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social History ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social History. Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 378–379. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.378 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social…
The green republic: A conservation history of Costa Rica
A history of conservation in Costa Rica which explores the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture.
Crossing the Green Line: Frontier, environment and the role of bandeirantes in the conquering of Brazilian territory
This article’s objective is to present, via bibliographic research, the territorial makeup of colonial Brazil (1500-1822) and the Brazilian historical approach at the beginning of the twentieth century that sought to relate questions and concepts of frontier, territoriality, and nature in the historic role of the bandeirante movement. The goal here is to address territorial and geographic questions, but also environmental ones, based on historica…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 Get access Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Evans Sterling. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00.) Jeff Bremer …
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands
Slavery in the North American Borderlands The editors of Linking the Histories of Slavery state that the goal of their volume is that by introducing “unexpected scenes" and by “challeng[ing] assumptions about how slavery worked across North America," they want readers to “expand th
Two Dams in the Desert: An Environmental and Agricultural History of Water in Sonora, Mexico
This article seeks to address the connections between the development of dams and irrigation systems in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico with agricultural modernisation in the mid to late twentieth century. It evaluates agricultural, environmental and social results of this water development through the lens of political ecology. It argues that in Mexico a 'hydraulic bureaucracy' emanating from the national capital Mexico City governed wat…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article 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. xxvi, 314 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-596-7.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, J…
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Book Review| October 01 2006 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 97–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501788 Cite Icon Cite Sha…
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
Journal Article Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975 Get access Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Ward Evan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Humboldt State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
At Union's Brink: Ideals and Problems in Restoring the United Provinces of Central America, 1920–1922
The Provincias Unidas del Centro de América (later called the Federación de la América Central) lasted from 1824 to 1838. Despite the various reasons for the union's disintegration in 1838, the dream of reunification has resurfaced at least twenty-five times. Geography, three hundred years of colonial union, and what Thomas Karnes has termed “more bonds of similarity than any other small group of nations” have all made the region of Central Ameri…
The green republic: A conservation history of Costa Rica
A history of conservation in Costa Rica which explores the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture.
Cattle, Deforestation and Development in the Amazon: An Economic, Agronomic and Environmental Perspective. By Merle D. Faminow. References, index Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest…
Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil’s Colonial Timber , by Shawn William Miller
Estudios sobre Historia y Ambiente en América II: Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífico. [Studies of History and Environment in America II: North America, South America, and the Pacific.] Edited by B…
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
Journal Article Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975 Get access Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Ward Evan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Humboldt State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Tequila: A Natural and Social History
Book Review| July 01 2005 ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social History ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social History. Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 378–379. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.378 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; ¡Tequila!: A Natural and Social…
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Book Review| October 01 2006 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 97–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501788 Cite Icon Cite Sha…
The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History
Book Review| October 01 2006 The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History. Simon M. Evans. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 482–484. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.482 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History. Agricultural History 1 J…
Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950
Sterling Evans, Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950, Agricultural History, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Winter, 2006), pp. 35-63
Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950
For nearly sixty years, roughly 1880 to 1950, before the affordability and wide-spread use of combines, grain production in the American and Canadian Great Plains was dependent on harvesting with binders. Binders cut the grain stalks and then tied them into bundles with twine that farmhands later would gather into shocks to await threshing. The majority of the twine used was made from fiber from agave plants (sisal and henequen) from Mexico’s Yuc…
Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community
Book Review| July 01 2007 Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community. E. N. Anderson. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 427–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.427 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community. Agr…
The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel
Journal Article The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel Get access The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. Edited by Evans Sterling. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxv + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliographies, index. $49.96, £37.95.) Dominique Brégent-Heald Dominique Brégent-Hea…
Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940
Book Review| April 01 2008 Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940 Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940. Craig Miner. Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 259–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sterling Evans; Next Year Country: Dus…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 Get access Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Evans Sterling. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00.) Jeff Bremer …
Canada's Population in Global Context: An Introduction to Social Demography, by Frank Trovato Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads , edited by Daniel Drache The Spirit of Industr…
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Journal Article 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. xxvi, 314 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-596-7.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, J…
Donald Pisani
Recent Developments in Transnational Environmental History
The field of environmental history in the past twenty years has become an important discipline for every continent on earth. Yet this internationalization has taken a more recent transnational turn, which this essay addresses. Now various scholars are asking questions about ecological connections between countries, about ecosystems that cross international borders, and about the environmental impact of transnational industries, export agriculture…
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
Book Review| January 01 2011 Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. By Karl Jacoby. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. xix + 358 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $32.95 (cloth). Sterling Evans Sterling Evans University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History…
Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
The result of a 1993 conference on Yucatecan history and culture, this edited volume brings together a well-known group of yucatecólogos to offer new interpretations about older regional topics. That it took 17 years to go from conference to book is unfortunate, although Gilbert Joseph’s epilogue (“Some Final Thoughts on Regional History and the Encounter with Modernity at Mexico’s Periphery”) is new and weaves in some, but not all, of the more r…
Agricultural Production and Environmental History
The traditional focus of agricultural history has been the study of rural landscapes, societies, and economies, as well as agricultural production and technologies. In contrast, environmental history has adopted a more interdisciplinary research approach, offering both ecological and political analyses, and addressing the world's current environmental crises from a historical perspective. Drawing on the environmental perspective, this article exp…
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition
The editors, translators, and publishers of this new book have done the world an enormous favor. They have given Latin Americanist historians, geographers, and political scientists, as well as many other scholars, a newly translated version of a very important work, making it available in a better form than offered in previous editions, especially in English. Alexander von Humboldt's classic Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1826) was such a…
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands
Slavery in the North American Borderlands The editors of Linking the Histories of Slavery state that the goal of their volume is that by introducing “unexpected scenes" and by “challeng[ing] assumptions about how slavery worked across North America," they want readers to “expand th
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