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... Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Notes Trade, Global Policy, and the Environment. World Bank Discussion Paper No. 402. Edited by Per G. Fredriksson. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1999. 228 pp., $30.00, paperback, ISBN 0-8213-4458-7. Addresses the linkages between...

... Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Notes Vegetable Seed Production. By Raymond A. T. George. New York: CABI Publishing, 1999. 336 pp., $90.00, hardback, ISBN 0-85199-336-2. The production of high quality seed in developed countries is the focus of this detailed book...

...Walter L. Buenger Texas Houses Built by the Book: The Use of Published Designs, 1850–1925 . Margaret Culbertson . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 248 / Agricultural History record of child life in a number of frontier locations. Many, such as the photograph of toddler...

... Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Notes A Farm Heritage Album. By Cynthia Bombach Helzel. Greensburg, Penn.: Purlin Press, 2000. 119 pp., $19.95, paperback, ISBN 0-9702380-0-2. Shares the stories and photographs of fifteen Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, farm families...

... Book Notes North American Windmill Manufacturers' Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide. Compiled and edited by T. Lindsay Baker. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 608 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-8061-3045-8. This annotated bibliography lists all the sources of windmill trade litera? ture...

... Book Notes Death ofthe Dream: Classic Minnesota Afton, Minn.: Afton Historical Society 1-890434-00-0. Farmhouses. Press, 1997. By William G. Gabler. 132 pp., $35.00, ISBN The dream of agricultural prosperity for family farmers in southeast Min? nesota died sometime after World War II, according...

... Book Notes Black Southerners, 1619-1869. By John B. Boles. 1984; reprint, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 256 pp., $15.95, paperback, ISBN 0-8131-0161-1. Black Southerners, 1619-1869 is a compact examination of the African American experience in America from 1619 to the end...

... Convention of the American Seed Trade Association (Chicago: American Seed Trade Association, 1911 ), 60 . 31 Thomas, History of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association, 75, 77. 32 Fitzgerald, "Farmers Deskilled," 324–43. Expertise, Book Farming, and Government Agriculture: The Origins...

...Jim Handy [email protected] The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power, and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 . By James D. Fisher . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . 330 pp., $99.99 , hardcover, ISBN 9781316517987 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural...

...Ian Beamish Abstract This essay argues that enslavers in the mid-nineteenth-century cotton South were interested in keeping detailed records but had minimal interest in advanced accounting methods. Drawing on the record and account books produced by Thomas Affleck in Mississippi in the 1840s...

.... Rather postmodernity’s concern with fragmentation and asymmetry, and the linguistic turn with its fixation on cultural invention and created mythology, seemed evident. Regional, national, and international-based studies alike reflect this new research agenda, and this article highlights seven books...

... multiple obstacles. Extensive reading (whether books, farm journals, or newspapers) was limited to those who had access to publications and could make time to read. The South Dakota Free Library Commission was valuable in circulating reading materials to the state’s rural population. In the 1930s...

... by the 1930s. He sought to resolve the situation with his plans for a national agricultural allotment program, which eventually became the foundation for federal farm programs. His books, "The Law of Diminishing Returns (1924)" and "Balancing the Farm Output: A Statement of the Present Deplorable Conditions...

...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...

...GREY OSTERUD Abstract Mary Neth’s 1995 book, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940, made a major contribution to the analysis of the connections between gender and the political economy that shaped farm women’s lives and fueled...

... explores some of the possible ways to recover fleeting history using medieval illuminations, which are hand-painted illustrations in books most often unrelated to agriculture. Unglamorous technologies, agricultural processes, plant varietals, animal breeds, housing design, and variation of agricultural...

... messages about gender as well. Although most cookbooks came from cities, some do exist from rural areas. Analyzing their structure and content shows much about how rural housewives thought about food and about their communities. The Fannin County Home demonstration Club's Cook Book (1933) is an excellent...

...Catharine Anne Wilson Abstract Words are the usual focus of diary scholars. The physical diary is the focus of this article, along with the “diary-keeping” practices of Ontario-based farm men and women from 1830 to 1930. The convenient, compact, sturdy blank book was preferred by most diarists...