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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jacob Darwin Hamblin Abstract This article explores atomic agriculture through the lens of political shelter, focusing on examples from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enthusiasm for atomic energy techniques, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on original multisite archival research, this article examines the overlooked role of Mexico in what was a flagship application of the “sterile male technique.” It argues that three main factors shaped this role: Mexico's long-term projects of agricultural and atomic modernization; diplomatic leverage...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Mauro Elli Abstract This article considers atomic agriculture as the nexus between nuclear enthusiasm and the Green Revolution, focusing on the case of Pakistan. The beginning of atomic agriculture in Pakistan cannot be considered in isolation. The biographies of the scientists, the genealogies...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Kapil Patil Abstract The use of radiation techniques in agriculture held great promise in postcolonial India's quest to put agriculture on a “scientific basis.” Unpacking its epistemic debates, and the dynamics of international technical assistance, this article contends that the pursuit of atomic...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... and knowledge. The other side of the story is that agriculture also proved important to the development of nuclear technologies because it provided a clearly peaceful output for atomic research. Atomic agriculture thus frequently assumed a place of prominence for explaining how splitting the atom was a gift...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
...” atomic technology. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 atomic agriculture Okinawa sterile insect technique pest control military colonialism B itter melon, a very popular gourd vegetable in Japan, is a necessary ingredient for a favored dish...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mutation breeding program of durum wheat, typically used for pasta making. Drawing from a variety of archival sources, this article shows how both programs were instrumental in legitimizing and bolstering the use of the “peaceful atom” in agriculture on a national and global scale. francesco.cassata...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the application of nuclear science to food and agriculture has received relatively little scholarly attention. Between 2009 and 2014, Jacob Darwin Hamblin authored several seminal articles on “atomic agriculture” at the International Atomic Energy Agency, particularly focusing on criticism from botanist Ronald...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., despite whatever Atoms for Peace rationalizations were offered after the fact. Its application to agriculture as a way to induce mutations is another example of innovation in biotechnology being embedded in the broader sweep of more general technological advances. Having unleashed atomic fission...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 415–435.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., 1964 , Fleming Papers. 36
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 662–666.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Camden Burd [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 A gricultural and environmental historians are skilled storytellers. They condense, organize, rework, and structure stories in ways that account for the human and nonhuman actors of the past. This can...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 114–115.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Diana L. Ahmad The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin . By Leisl Carr Childers . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4927-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 January 2017
...David Tomblin American Indians and National Forests . By Theodore Catton . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2016 . 384 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3199-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History way into the everyday life of Americans...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 January 2016
...David B. Danbom A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II . By Maury Klein . New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2013 . 912 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-59691-607-4. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter A Call to Arms: Mobilizing...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 120–122.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Jacob Darwin Hamblin [email protected] Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration . By Laura J. Martin . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2022 . 336 pp., $39.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780674979420 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 308–325.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Peter Goin Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Peter Goin’s and Mary Webb’s words from the University of Nevada Press book, A Doubtful River, published in 2000 Nevada: The Leave-It State PETER GOIN You got money you want to gamble, leave it here. You got...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 August 2022
... is organized into six parts illustrating themes related to (1) land acquisition, (2) ore extraction and petroleum, (3) agriculture and food production, (4) the creation of a military-industrial geography, (5) chemical and atomic revolutions, and (6) the resultant awareness of the earth's fragility that came...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 683–684.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Chris Deutsch Moveable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City . By Helen Tangires . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2019 . 312 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2747-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 683 criticize...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 366–368.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Gordon E. Harvey A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699-2000 . Samuel C. Hyde Jr. . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 366 / Agricultural History tory of a school whose curriculum provided far more than...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Gretchen Heefner The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism . By Thomas Robertson . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2012 . 316 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-5272-9 .. © the Agricultural History Society, 2014...
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