Flax Americana, Volume 10: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent by Joshua Macfadyen

Flax Americana, Volume 10: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent

McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies

Joshua Macfadyen

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history science informative medium-paced
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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...

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