Joshua Macfadyen: 2 books
Flax Americana
A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded...
by Colleen Beard, Stephen Bocking, Jennifer Bonnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...