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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 556–557.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Brady Banta Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties . Arthur F. Raper . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties. By Arthur F. Raper. Columbia: Universityof South Carolina Press, 2005. 427 pp...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Frederick Kirschenmann From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures . Joan Iverson Nassauer , Mary V. Santelmann and Donald Scavia . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 371–372.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Harry C. McDean American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980 . Jon Lauck . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 371 thony Patrick O'Brien argues persuasively that from 1860 to 1900 the black-white...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 333–357.
Published: 01 July 2007
... cases, such as the narrowing of belt width, public pressure improved long-term prospects. Public unwillingness to engage in drawn-out and uncertain solutions and a bureaucratic refusal to open up the planning process consistently undermined the overall success of the project. Conservation planning...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 October 2003
... that American agricultural history would have been very different had these votes tipped the other way. Evidence from three outlying slave regions--the Kentucky bluegrass, Missouri’s "Little Dixie," and the wheat belt of Virginia--shows that slavery could adapt readily to crops and regions commonly considered...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Chrissy Lutz; Dawn Herd-Clark Abstract Social interactions among African American women in Georgia’s Black Belt during the years between the world wars helped those women to improve their lives. Fort Valley State College and the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 104–131.
Published: 01 January 2021
... by attempting to unite two farm groups with different policy goals—the Associated Farmers of California and the Corn Belt Liberty League—under the broader umbrella of anti-communism. Though this effort failed, FIC leaders eagerly served the interests of big business, even at the risk of being labeled a front...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the “labor problem” in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that peach production depended on the cotton economy. Peaches required large amounts of labor only at harvest time, which came during a lull...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
... underscored the importance of other mineral “impurities” to healthy plant development. Working in the US Cotton Belt in particular, many of these agents promoted a vision of pan-American ecological and economic interdependence, and through their racialized depictions of agricultural knowledge, they sought...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 405–418.
Published: 01 April 2002
...: Oxford University Press, 1986 ), 219 . 8 Joseph A. Lawrence , ed., " Detailed Financial Statement of 1909, Roster of County Officials, Statistical and Other Interesting Information of St. Francois County, Missouri ," August 1910 9 R. E. Wagner , "Lead Belt Geology...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 19–38.
Published: 01 January 2000
... also clearly show that black farmers grew corn?and not just for subsistence, but for sale. Furthermore, they sold that corn to whites at a price determined by community consensus. All of these activities indi? cate that the economic vitality and independence of the freedpeople in the Alabama Black Belt...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 703–704.
Published: 01 October 2002
... exclusively on the Cotton Belt, but that pattern is now changing, thankfully. Works such as Reconstruc? tion in the Cane Fields force us to broaden our focus and dispense with facile generalizations that ignore the internal diversity ofthe postbellum South. From the opening pages John Rodrigue emphasizes...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 93–94.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Woods drover and that during the early twentieth century Black Belt farmers interested in breaking their dependence on cotton began raising exotic cattle. Ironically, he notes, most contemporary cattle raisers in Alabama more closely resemble their colonial ancestors than their immediate predecessors...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 October 2002
... communities in the San Gabriel Valley's citrus belt. Going far beyond citrus workers camp conditions, field labor organizing, and worker resistance, Garcia takes the reader into dance halls and "little theatre," that is dinner theater, to find other forms of protest and resistance. In the process, Garcia...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 271–274.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Society 2022 Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones . In Perilous Bounty he focuses on what he sees as the agricultural sustainability crisis in two essential production areas—California, and Iowa, which stands as a proxy for the Corn Belt as a whole...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., Schlebecker , Whereby We Thrive ; Allan G. Bogue , From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1963 ); Percy Wells Bidwell and John I. Falconer , History of Agriculture in the Northern United...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 493–521.
Published: 01 October 2007
...), 81-82 Harlan H. Barrows, Lectures on the Historical Geography of the United States as Given in 1933 (Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography, 1962), 231 Martyn J. Bowden, "Desert Wheat Belt, Plains Corn Belt: Environmental Cognition and Behaviour of Settlers in the Plains Margin...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 October 2002
... quite effective in exploiting it to their advantage. Their wages during the 1870s were more than 50 percent above those of sharecroppers in the Cotton Belt, and not significantly below the average wage of non-agricultural labor- ers nationally. The survival of the gang system may have also facilitated...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 775–798.
Published: 01 October 2000
... movements. Seven years later, this number was 37 percent. Many were high quality, grass-finished stock. The majority, however, were feeders and stockers bound for the corn belt in the Midwest, where they gave farm? ers an attractive alternative to their usual sources in the western and south- western range...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 712–714.
Published: 01 November 2024
...’ publication. The second part follows magonista s in their exile to the Brown Belt and exposes the unsuccessful efforts of the Porfirian regime and its US allies to apprehend them. Part three narrates the Porfirian-US counterinsurgency campaign that involved intercepting the magonista s’ mail, spying on them...