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The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History
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The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History. By Clinton L. Evans. Calgary, Alberta Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xviii + 309 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $29.95.
This slender, pleasantly illustrated volume is perhaps the most complete examination of weeds in North America. Clinton Evans has given us more than the title implies, for this is a social and environmental history of weeds as integral components of British agriculture as it was transplanted to Ontario, and eventually onto the prairies.
Evans sees striking parallels ...
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