"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 urban…
"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 urban…
"It is said that farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted cities, too. Flax Americana reexamines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada's first and most important industrial crop--fl…
"This is an impressive study of an important shift in the North American agrarian economy between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1920s."--Page 4 de la couverture.
"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 urban…
How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America.