Colony and Empire

by William G. Robbins

1994

Popular writers and historians alike have perpetuated the powerful myth of the rugged-individualist single-handedly transforming the American West. In reality, William Robbins counters, it was the Guggenheims and Goulds, the Harrimans and Hearsts, and the Morgans and Mellons who masterminded what the West was to become. Remove the romance, he shows, and a darker West emerges--a colonial-like region where "industrial statesmen," aided by eastern U.S. and European capital, manipulated investments in pursuit of private gain while controlling wage-earning cowboys and miners. Robbins argues that understanding the impact of capitalism on the West--from the fur trade era to the present--is essential to understanding power, influence, and change in the region. Showing how global capitalism had a more profound impact on the modern West than individual initiative, he explores violence and racism along the Texas/Mexican border; colonial-style company towns in Montana and the Northwest; contrasting traditions astride the U.S./Canadian boundary; pace-setting agribusiness and exploitation of labor in California; the growing power of metropolitan centers and dependence of rural areas; and the emergence of a sizable federal influence. To grasp the essence of the West's dramatic transformation, Robbins contends, you must look to the mainstays of material relations in the region--the perpetually changing character of political and economic culture; the inherent instability of resources; and the larger constellations of capitalist decision making. Consequently, he shows shy Western success and failure, prosperity and misfortune, and expansion and decline were all inseparably linked to the evolution of capitalism at the local, regional, national and global levels. In the tradition of Patricia Nelson Limerick's Legacy of Conquest, Robbins's study challenges some of our most revered images of the West and invigorates the ongoing debates over its history and meaning for our nation.

Standardization and Inspection of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

by William Henry White, Sears Polydore Doolittle

1946

This publication gives information on collecting, preserving, handling, mounting, and labeling insect specimens, on subsequent care of collections, and on recognition of the general insect groups or orders. It has been prepared in response to numerous requests from farmers, students, servicemen, and other individuals and groups interested in obtaining first-hand knowledge of insects by collecting them.

Watch Your Step

by Betty Thomas Richardson, Clarice Louisba Scott, Jesse Lee Webb, Pinckney Alston Waring, Reginald George Hainsworth, Robert William Cowlin, Victor Rickman Boswell, Wellington Brink, Anne Flippo Hagood, Oliver Edwin Baker, Albert Perry Brodell

1942

This publication gives general information for the inexperienced gardener on what to grow, how to prepare and fertilize the soil, how and when to plant, how to care for the plants, and how to utilize the crop.

List of Sires Proved in Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, 1943

by Betty Thomas Richardson, Carl Barrier Brown, Clarice Louisba Scott, Georgian Adams, Glen Blaine Ramsey, Henry Clapp Sherman, Hugh Hammond Bennett, James Walker Cruikshank, Lawrence V. Compton, Leonard Joseph Watson, Marion Julia Drown, United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Personnel, Victor Rickman Boswell, William Arthur Craft, William Henry White, James Stewart Wiant, Robert Emerson Wester, Sears Polydore Doolittle, Sybil Laura Smith, Victor Leo Stedronsky

1943

This summary, together with the one on farm crops, by the use of maps and supplementary charts, portrays the quantitative and geographic significance of production of the Nation's food supply.