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Australia's Entanglement in Global Cotton
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 29–53.
Published: 01 May 2022
... on the imports of the English cotton mills and an injection of funds by the British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) in the 1920s to boost industry. While Australian politicians promoted cotton as a domestic economic and demographic stimulant, fulfilment of these nation-state objectives was deeply entangled...
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Cotton and Race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900–1920
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 277–279.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of Rochester Press, 2016. 310 pp., $110.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-5804-6567-0. There is much to admire in Jonathan E. Robins s analysis of the Atlantic cotton trade in the first decades of the twentieth century. Robins adds to the literature on the globalization of the cotton economy by examining the British...
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Antebellum US Cotton Production and Slavery in the Indian Mirror
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 5–38.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Alan L. Olmstead Abstract In the nineteenth century the British repeatedly attempted to improve the quality of Indian cotton. This was a major enterprise involving the importation of thousands of pounds of exotic seeds, the establishment of experimental farms and outreach programs, and the hiring...
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Does Crop Determine Culture?
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 407–439.
Published: 01 July 2014
... stripping cotton that made it technically infeasible fifty or even one hundred years before if one wanted to live like a Texan.18 But there was more money in growing good-quality cotton, in letting the top crop come in, and eliminating most of the trash. Instead of being a technological given...
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Slavery and American Agricultural History
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 October 2003
... required for commercial cotton. Many areas of the southern piedmont were ultisols rather than alfisols, but the land was nonetheless valuable because it was well-suited for cotton grow? ing, and on this basis it supported a substantial slave population in 1860. Access to markets would be a third factor...
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The New Egypt, Pima Cotton, and the Role of Native Wage Labor on the Cooperative Testing and Demonstration Farm, Sacaton, Arizona, 1907–1917
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 491–516.
Published: 01 October 2014
... . Beverly Lemire , Cotton ( Oxford : Berg , 2011 ), 89 ; Louis Bader , “British Colonial Competition for the American Cotton Belt,” Economic Geography 3 ( Apr. 1927 ): 210 – 31 ; Thomas H. Kearney and William A. Peterson , “Egyptian Cotton in the Southwestern United States...
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The International Institute for Cotton: The Globalization of Cotton since 1945
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 258–271.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., England, to discuss the growing capacity of the textile industry. Through this meeting of solely private interests known as the International Cotton Textile Conference, the British hoped to establish a cartel in global cotton textiles and impose restrictions on pro? duction. Rather than set restrictions...
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“A Cosmopolitan Weed of the World”: Following Bermudagrass
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 354–367.
Published: 01 July 2014
... experienced as they began their southern education in 1936. Burton s first indication that his job may have larger implications than simply breeding crops came when he and his family travelled south toward Tifton. For the first time, he wrote, I saw cotton growing on fertile land, but no nice homes...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
... The Permanent Nitrate Committee, a London-based association of private nitrate interests that had been founded and presided over by the most recognizable British nitrate baron, John Thomas North, provided the initial structure for this marketing work. But starting in 1894, a new office, known as the Nitrate...
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Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and unparalleled voice of the New South movement, these were “practical” men who “saw nothing but dependence and ruin in cotton.” 4 Boosters pleaded for and promised that diversification would invite outside capital and immigration, and fruit growers obliged. From Union veterans forming fruit-growing colonies...
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Reports on Philippine Industrial Crops in World War II from Japan’s English Language Press
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 January 2005
... imports from the outside world, a fact that potentially placed the country's cotton spinning companies and ancillary industries in complete jeopardy. To maintain its viability, Japan's Cotton Spinners' Association, made up of sixty companies like Toyo Boseki, Kanegafuchi, and Dai Nippon urgently required...
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“The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 461–490.
Published: 01 October 2018
... , no. 4 ( 1877 ): 405 ; David Pietersz DeVries , Voyages from Holland to America, 1632–1634 , trans. Henry C. Murphy (New York: New York Historical Society, 1853 ), 52 ; Cotton Mather , Sober Considerations, on a Growing Flood of Iniquity ( Boston , 1708 ). 51. Philipp Waldeck...
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The “Age of Agricultural Ignorance”: Trends and Concerns for Agriculture Knee-Deep into the Twenty–First Century
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
... in Oklahoma assuredly would be surprised to learn as it is not clearly presented in state history textbooks. But when high British demand allowed for prices of raw cotton to double in the year 1815 (from 15 cents a pound to 30 cents in less than a year), hundreds of thousands of Americans from elsewhere...
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The Formative Years of Atomic Agriculture in Pakistan in a Long-Term Perspective
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and, on the other, to counter the associated phenomena of salinization and waterlogging. 28 Within about twenty years, studies were carried out in plant breeding, entomology, and physiology, especially on cotton; the first experiments on the use of ammonium sulphate in the region were also conducted. In 1940...
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Paradox of Precision: Bright Tobacco as Technology Transfer, 1880–1937
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Growing in Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 2 Howard Cox, The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco 1880-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 310-11 Amelia Trent, "Special Report: World Unmanufactured Tobacco Trade," Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, http...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Peaches in New York,” Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle , Sept. 4 , 1856 , 1 . 5. Daniel J. Sully , “King Cotton's Impoverished Retinue,” Cosmopolitan Magazine 46 ( Feb. 1909 ): 253 , 258 . 6. “The Georgia Fruit Growers' Association,” Southern (Atlanta) Cultivator , Feb. 15...
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Sugar Plantations in Queensland, 1864–1912: Origins, Characteristics, Distribution, and Decline
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 609–647.
Published: 01 July 2000
... entirely of Chinese who had made money on the Palmer River goldfield. Organized by Andrew Leon, a naturalized Chinese with West In? dian experience, the company established Hop Wah plantation near Cairns initially to grow cotton, but switched to sugar in 1882.26 Pastoralists, merchants, and sugar...
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Origins and Pathways of Agricultural Demonstration in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1924–1960s
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... British officers, not local people as in Lesotho, performed this work in most territories until the 1930s. Early British outreach aimed to boost production of such cash crops as cocoa, cotton, and tobacco, but the 1920s saw a partial shift toward farmers needs. Although the case of Lesotho has important...
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Dissertations, 1996–2000
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 467–492.
Published: 01 October 2001
... Davis. "The Gibbs Farmstead: An Archaeological Study of Rural Economy and Material Life in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920." University of Tennessee, 1998. Grossardt, Theodore H. "Harvesting Hoboes: The 800 Mile Picket Line." University of Kentucky, 1999. Grove, Wayne Allison. "The Economics of Cotton...
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Fats of the Land: New Histories of Agricultural Oils
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 520–546.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... Jonathan Robins is associate professor of global history at Michigan Technological University. He is currently writing a history of the oil palm industry. His first book, Cotton and Race across the Atlantic, was published in 2016. Kate Stevens is a lecturer in the History Programme at the University...
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