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Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties

Brady Banta
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 556–557.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.4.556
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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From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures

Frederick Kirschenmann
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 138–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.138
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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American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980

Harry C. McDean
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 371–372.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.3.371
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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The Shelterbelt Project: Cooperative Conservation in 1930s America

Joel Orth
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 333–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.333
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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Slavery and American Agricultural History

Gavin Wright
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 527–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.4.527
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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“No One Was on Their Own”: Sociability among Rural African American Women in Middle Georgia during the Interwar Years

Chrissy Lutz, Dawn Herd-Clark
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.3.437
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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Allies of Industry: The Failure of a Conservative Farm Front, 1920–1940

Daniel T. Gresham
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 104–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.1.104
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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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century

Tom Okie
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.1.72
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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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945

Joshua Frens-String
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10154307
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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Lead in the Water: Power, Progressivism, and Resource Control in a Missouri Mining Community

Bob Faust
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 405–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.405
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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"Negro Thieves" or Enterprising Farmers?: Markets, the Law, and African American Community Regulation in Alabama, 1866–1877

Mary Ellen Curtin
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 19–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.19
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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Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880

Robert Tracy McKenzie
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 703–704.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.703
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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Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama

Bradley G. Bond
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 93–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.93
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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A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970

Gordon Morris Bakken
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 712–713.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.712
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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The Sustainability Crisis . . . Again

David Danbom
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 271–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9634583
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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The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine

Carrie A. Meyer
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.3.287
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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The Far-from-Dry Debates: Dry Farming on the Canadian Prairies and the American Great Plains

Peter A. Russell
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 493–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.4.493
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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Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Jane Adams
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 704–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.704
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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Fighting a Losing Battle: Canadian Stockmen and the American Tariffs, 1920–1930

Max Foran
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 775–798.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.775
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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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Viridiana Hernández Fernández
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 712–714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11407810
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...
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