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...Cameron L. Saffell Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines, 1793–1950 . T. Lindsay Baker . Book Reviews A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines, 17931950. By T. Lindsay Baker. Watford...

...Jeri L. Reed Abstract The activities of Mexican banker and hacendado Zeferino Dominguez in the early twentieth century raise questions about the assumption that Mexico was merely the beneficiary of modern agricultural science developed in the United States. Dominguez was a banker and large...

...James E. McWilliams Abstract The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance...

...Evan P. Bennett Making a Living. Work and Environment in the United States . Chad Montrie . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter Makinga Living.WorakndEnvironmeninttheUnitedStatesB. yChadMontrie. ChapelHill:UniversitoyfNorthCarolinaPress...

...Stephen Macekura Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development . By Daniel Immerwahr . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28994-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Kendra Smith-Howard Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and India . By Andrea S. Wiley . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 208 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-72905-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Stuart McCook Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Cold War Consumption in Chile and the United States . By Heidi Tinsman . Durham : Duke University Press , 2014 . 376 pp., $26.96 , paperback. ISBN 978–0–8223–5535–9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Mark Finlay; Alan I Marcus Abstract This paper examines the reception and regulation of antibiotics in animal agriculture in the United States and Europe. It finds two different cultural traditions. In the United States, a libertarian ethos, aided and abetted by big agriculture, hampers effective...

... Higher Education , eds. Geiger and Sorber , 114 . 17. Nathan M. Sorber , “Farmers, Scientists, and Officers of Industry: The Formation and Reformation of Land-Grant Colleges in the Northeastern United States, 1862–1906,” (PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University , 2011 ), Chpt. 3...

...James L. Huston Abstract The United States established a record of economic growth in the nineteenth century unmatched by other nations. What has not been recognized is the role of the distribution of income in generating an aggregate demand that sustained such growth. By comparing the economies...

... University The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States. by ira berlin. Cambridge: harvard university Press, 2015. 240 pp., $22.95, hardback, iSbn 978-0-674-28608-5. This accessible and powerfully argued book offers something of a defining summary of ira berlin s distinguished career...

...E. Melanie Dupuis Organic Struggle: The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States . By Brian K. Obach . Cambridge : MIT Press , 2015 . 340 pp., $32.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-262-02909-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 271 Garden years...

... the decade, the Canadians spearheaded an effort to bring about a transnational pooling program, especially among wheat producers in the United States, Australia, and the Soviet Union. Representatives from these countries recognized the Canadian pool as the ideal model and worked closely...

...Phillip L. Frana The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States . C. Lee Campbell , Paul D. Peterson and Clay S. Griffith . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 251 The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States. Edited by C...

...George B. Ellenberg Debating Farm Power: Draft Animals, Tractors, and the United States Department Agriculture of GEORGE B. ELLENBERG Beginning around 1920, tractor and draft animal advocates clashed over the issue of what type of power best suited American agriculture. Each side in this debate...

...Stephanie Lewthwaite Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico . By Deborah Cohen . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 360 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3359-9 . © the Agricultural History...

...Ben Marsh Abstract Between the American Revolution and the 1840s, silk cultivation was pursued enthusiastically across the United States. Although scorned at first, silk's republican virtues were rediscovered and rearticulated in the antebellum era by a range of proponents. Owing to an evolving...

...Thomas Chase Hagood Reborn in America: French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815–1865 . By Eric Saugera . Translated by Madeleine Velguth . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2011 . 584 pp., $30.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173...

...Sarah T. Phillips; Dale Potts; Adrienne Petty; Mark Schultz; Sam Stalcup; Anne Effland Abstract This group of essays recognizes the sesquicentennial of the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA was created in 1862, part of a body of legislation that the Union was able to enact once free...

...Nicholas E. Williams [email protected] Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health . Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2019 . 390...