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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 235–255.
Published: 01 October 2012
...David Pattinson Abstract The archaeological evidence for human consumption of honey in China dates back to the seventh millennium BCE, while the earliest reference to beekeeping is in a third century CE biography of a reclusive scholar who kept bees during the mid-second century. Based mainly upon...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Adam Ebert The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt . By Gene Kritsky . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 160 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-119-936138-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History use of qualitative primary sources along...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Angélica Márquez-Osuna Abstract This article examines the role of the stingless bee Melipona beecheii in beekeeping practices in the Yucatán Peninsula, México, in the nineteenth century. Native to Yucatán, the Melipona bee is capable of producing large amounts of honey and has been bred by Maya...
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in Beekeeping from the South: The Yucatán Peninsula's “Industrious Bee” and the Rise of Modern Apiculture
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 3. View of domestic hives resembling Maya beekeeping method. Meliponario U Naajil Yuum K'iin, Maní, Yucatán, México. Photo courtesy of Pablo Sepúlveda-Díaz, October 2022.
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 322–343.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Adam Ebert Abstract This essay expands and refines academic knowledge of English beekeeping during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scientific beekeeping focused on improvement, which, in turn, depended on the dissemination of ideas and practices. This analysis, therefore, encompasses...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 274–275.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market. By Tammy Horn. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 376 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3435-2. When Tammy Horn told Eva Crane, the noted beekeeping historian, that she was writing a book about women and bees, Crane...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 288–289.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... The Quest for the Perfect Hive traces the evolution of western hive technology and calls for further innovation in hive design. As honeybees suffer the devastation of colony collapse disorder, author Gene Kritsky argues that a return to beekeepers innovative spirit of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 287–288.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... The Quest for the Perfect Hive traces the evolution of western hive technology and calls for further innovation in hive design. As honeybees suffer the devastation of colony collapse disorder, author Gene Kritsky argues that a return to beekeepers innovative spirit of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 275–277.
Published: 01 October 2012
... for a chieftain to wear as he and the soldiers battled cattle thieves. The development of rational beekeeping provided European women with new roles to fill, and Horn shows how they were encouraged to take up beekeeping by authors of early beekeeping books. In the nineteenth century, Samuel Bagster s book...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of qualitative primary sources along with quantitative analysis. Alaine Hutson Huston-Tillotson University The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. By Gene Kritsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 160 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0119-936138-0. The Tears of Re unites ancient Egyptian honey bee...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 619–621.
Published: 01 October 2018
... on an interdisciplinary global quest to meet some of the beekeepers, farmers, artists, and scientists committed to solving this crisis. A lecturer in environmental literature and a passionate beekeeper, Swan is a welcome addition to the community of scientists and economists whose pens have dominated recent discussions...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 272–274.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market. By Tammy Horn. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 376 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3435-2. When Tammy Horn told Eva Crane, the noted beekeeping historian, that she was writing a book about women and bees, Crane...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2017
... administration. Overall, The Tears of Re provides a concise peek into ancient Egyptian beekeeping. Much of the archaeological and archival evidence is previously known, but Kritsky achieves a quality integration punctuated with excellent illustration. His beekeeping expertise is evident in his discussion...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 617–619.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., and have made clear the dire consequences that an absence of bees will have for the economy, the environment, and human health. Through a unique combination of masterful prose, poetry, and artwork, Heather Swan guides readers on an interdisciplinary global quest to meet some of the beekeepers, farmers...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 393–408.
Published: 01 October 2005
... Report of Iowa Book of Agriculture, 142 and "1970 Apple Grower Survey Report, Western IowaEastern Nebraska," File 5/17, Box 5, Series 9/16/21, E. L. Denisen Papers, ISUSC 9 Anon., "History of Iowa Beekeeping," Forty-Sixth Annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, 213-18 Twenty-Sixth Annual Iowa Year...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 557–558.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., beekeeping, and the shape of spades, as well as the practicalities of plowing and the estimated numbers in a plow team of oxen; each issue is presented with a full review of the current evidence and debates. Their work is supported by a vast bibliography. as this book shows, lowland britain is not one...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 January 2011
... dissertation is entitled Hive Society: The Popularization of Science and Beekeeping in the British Isles, 1609 1913. Dr. Ebert is currently an assistant professor of history at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wayne D. Rasmussen Award The 2009 winner of the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award for the best...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 2024
... growing concerns about lack of physical fitness and unhealthy environments, leading to nudist movements, rural and seaside summer camps for children, and growing questions about chemicals being used in industrial food manufacture and even what qualified as real food. French beekeepers fought legal...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 289–290.
Published: 01 April 2011
... revision, although his chapter on the gradual acceptance of movable frame technology is strong and historically accurate. Kritsky s concluding chapter promotes new hive technology as beekeepers savior in the molecular age (189).This seems surprising. Just as decades of scientific observation guided...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 621–623.
Published: 01 October 2018
... centuries, Swan has provided an important opportunity to reconsider our relationship to the natural world both as individuals and as a society. Accompanying her in her quest to solve the issues confronting modern beekeepers, one realizes that the search for where honeybees thrive is also a search for where...
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