Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent 9780773553958

How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America. How urban painters and prai

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Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent 9780773553958

Table of contents :
Cover
FLAX AMERICANA
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Edge of Industrialization: Finding a Northern Fibre
CHAPTER TWO Everyday Exchanges: Growing and Harvesting Flax in Ontario
CHAPTER THREE Flax Fabrications: Selling the Promoter’s Plant
CHAPTER FOUR Covering the Earth: North American Flax and Paint to 1878
CHAPTER FIVE Saving the Surface: Flax in the Urban Industrial Complex
CHAPTER SIX Cover Crop: Growing Flax for Linseed Oil and Paint
CHAPTER SEVEN Saving Flax: Industry, Science, and the Tariff
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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