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Beet borderland: Hispanic workers, the sugar beet, and the making of a northern Colorado landscape

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dc.contributor.authorStandish, Sierra, author
dc.contributor.authorFiege, Mark T., advisor
dc.contributor.authorOrsi, Jared, 1970-, committee member
dc.contributor.authorOre, Janet, committee member
dc.coverage.spatialFort Collins (Colo.)
dc.coverage.spatialColorado
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:28:34Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:28:34Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionDepartment Head: Ruth M. Alexander.
dc.description.abstractAt the turn of the nineteenth century, the arrival of the sugar beet industry wrought change in northern Colorado. The sugar beet was a totally new plant-it was unlike corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops that local farmers were familiar with. The biological characteristics of the beet required a particular style of intensive labor, indeed shaping the daily life of laborers. Hispanic migrants to Fort Collins worked and lived under the influence of the sugar beet, but they were not passive participants in the story; they effectively transplanted some of their cultural traditions and left their own imprint in the landscape. Two years after the turn of the twentieth century, the Fort Collins landscape still bears the mark of the sugar beet. Yet even as landscape tells history, history must help explain landscape. Adobe houses still stand in some old neighborhoods, suggesting that Hispanic inhabitants once played a part in the early chronicles of Fort Collins. This thesis endeavors to flesh out that story-to explain the origins of Hispanic beet workers; how the beet changed their lifestyle, bodies, and public identity; and in what ways they modified their environment.
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dc.identifier2002_summer_Standish_HIST.pdf
dc.identifierETDF2002100001HIST
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/35627
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationCatalog record number (MMS ID): 991015710109703361
dc.relationF784.F6.S73 2002
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.titleBeet borderland: Hispanic workers, the sugar beet, and the making of a northern Colorado landscape
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thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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