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Viticulture in El Paso del Norte during the Colonial Period

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Rick Hendricks
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 191–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.191
Published: 01 April 2004
...Rick Hendricks Abstract Imported grapes planted in El Paso del Norte around the middle of the seventeenth century grew to be substantial vineyards by the opening decades of the eighteenth century. Some growers had tens of thousands of vines under cultivation and produced wine and brandy...
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Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines

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Stephen J. Russell
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 123–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.123
Published: 01 January 2000
... on the origins of the term "brandy." None of the historical information in Terroir is annotated, and meticulous historians might find this off-putting. Historians may also be uncomfortable with stereotypes, such as the stated German head and French 124 / Agricultural History heart of Alsatians, and how...
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The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South

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Christopher C. Meyers
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 131–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.1.131
Published: 01 January 2018
... planters grew peaches to supplement slaves diets, as fodder for hogs, and to make brandy; by the mid-1800s, the peach had become a small but growing part of southern and Georgia culture. After getting the peach established in the state, Okie introduces the men who developed peach culture in Georgia...
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Crush: The Triumph of California Wine

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Anna Katharine Mansfield
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 675–677.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.4.675
Published: 01 October 2020
... of policies and regulations is necessarily less compelling than descriptions of legendary wines, and the narrative drags a bit here, though some of the sidebars are truly fascinating (like the salvaging of thousands of gallons of smoky, ash-filled wine through distillation into potable brandy). In Part Three...
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A World without Chocolate: Grocery Purchases at Some Upper Canadian Country Stores, 1808-1861

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Douglas McCalla
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 147–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.147
Published: 01 April 2005
.... Rural Upper Canada was, evidently, a world without chocolate.3 On the other hand, it was a world with opodeldoc. A recipe in Dr. Chase's indispensable home guide (in this case the 1867 Canadian edi? tion) describes this product. OPODELDOC?LIQUID?Best brandy 1 qt.; warm it and add gum camphor 1 oz...
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Stretching Time, Collapsing Space: How New Jersey Market Gardeners Used Technology to Control Production, 1838–1876

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Geoff D. Zylstra
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 144–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.2.144
Published: 01 April 2013
... , Ten Acres , 172 , 134 . 25. Kalm describes the process of evaporating fruit and making brandy in his diary. Kalm , America of 1750 , 41 , 51 . Sue Shephard , Pickled, Potted, & Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World ( New York : Simon...
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Sir Albert Howard and the Forestry Roots of the Organic Farming Movement

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Gregory Barton
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 168–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.2.168
Published: 01 April 2001
... proper climate. India suffered from a long line of environmental disasters brought about by Muslims and other invaders. Ribbentrop, Inspector General of Forests from 1884 to 1899, differed in no way from his two predecessors, Dietrich Brandis and Wilhelm Schlich, in his views on climate and deforestation...
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Water in Print: Nature and Artifice

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Jen Huntley-Smith
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 354–363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.354
Published: 01 April 2002
... Across Brandy Gulch," the au? thor, identified only as "S praised the "remarkably ingenious" construc? tion of the 1,500-foot flume, then went on to discuss the importance of water to California's economy. In a remarkable if disingenuous analogy, the author compared California's "gorgeous treasury...
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The Rural-Urban Fringe in the Late Twentieth Century

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Mark Friedberger
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 502–514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.502
Published: 01 April 2000
... as elitists when dealing with farmers and suburbanites. They made fun of suburbanites who practiced white flight and moved to "tomorrowland," where they lived in "big hair" houses. They alienated farmers when they tried to impose controls on prop? erty. In the battle for the preservation of the Brandy wine...
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The “Age of Agricultural Ignorance”: Trends and Concerns for Agriculture Knee-Deep into the Twenty–First Century

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Sterling Evans
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.1.004
Published: 01 January 2019
... , https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/food/ . 52. Hightower, “State of the Plate, 2015,” 1. 53. Berry, cited in ibid., 2. See also, Brandi Janssen, Making Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities of Today’s Small Farmer (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017...
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“True Sustainability”: An Environmental, Worker, and Consumer History of Organic Strawberry Farming in 1990s California

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Shana Bernstein
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 500–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.3.500
Published: 01 July 2021
.... “Address by Arturo Rodriguez January 26, 1996,” 16th Annual Ecological Farming Conference, Folder 16, Box 59, UFW Office of the President, Rodriguez Collection. For information on the conference, see Brandy Tuzon and Roya Camp, “UFW Chief Calls for Era of Cooperation,” Jan. 26, 1996, Californian , Folder...
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Uncovering the Subsistence Economy in the Twentieth-Century South: Blue Ridge Mountain Farms

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Sara M. Gregg
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.4.417
Published: 01 October 2004
... selling them to local stores and nearby towns or preserving them in jams and jellies. Virtually every family grew apples, which they dried or made into apple brandy and apple butter. A few dozen families grew and canned peaches.18 Fresh meat also supplemented the mountain residents' diet, but the large...
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Interpreting Agricultural Activities in Historical Aerial Photographs

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Graham Callaway
Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 77–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11470503
Published: 01 February 2025
... Inferred from Multidecadal Historical Aerial Photographs .” Rangeland Ecology and Management 66 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 297 – 304 . Oswald Brandi K. “ Researching Aerial Photography of the United States: RG 145 Aerial Indexes Now Digitized .” Unwritten Record (blog), National Archives...
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Fermenting a Twenty–First Century California Wine Industry

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Victor W. Geraci
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 438–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.4.438
Published: 01 October 2004
... by purchasing bulk wine from their growers, purchas? ing small local vineyards, opening a store in San Francisco, and shipping wine to New York and Philadelphia. By 1858 their winery led the state with sales of 125,000 gallons of wine and brandy. Theirs was not the only large-scale operation in Los Angeles...
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No Longer Wild but “Wildstock”: Fox Farming in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick

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Ian J. Jesse
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.084
Published: 01 January 2020
..., and farmers had to treat the symptoms as they appeared. These treatments included a little whiskey, brandy, or sweet spirits of nitre (10 to 15 drops every two hours). . . . To combat general weakness, 15 or 20 minims of a mixture, consisting of one part of camphor and four parts of olive oil may be injected...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century

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Tom Okie
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.1.72
Published: 01 January 2011
... scattered around southeastern farmsteads 74 2011 Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor mainly produced cheap fodder for fattening hogs and brandy for cheering the spirits. Fresh market peaches were not grown in much quantity until the 1830s in what is called the Peninsula peach belt...
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The Universality of Frontier Disorder: Northern Australia Viewed Against the Northern Great Plains of North America

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Warren Elofson
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 147–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.2.147
Published: 01 April 2014
... and alcohol substituted; tin imitations of the Holy Bible were filled with intoxicants and sold on the trains; metal kegs filled with alcohol came concealed in the centre of barrels of kerosene, and mince-meat soaked in brandy and peaches prepared in the same manner were common.9 Young, male North West...
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Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South

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Bryant K. Barnes
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619798
Published: 01 May 2022
...,” People's Party Paper , June 21, 1895; “Hail Queen Peach,” Atlanta Constitution , July 7, 1895. 6. “Nesbitt Says Cotton Is Short 15%,” Atlanta Constitution , August 13, 1898; “Brandy Making,” Athens Weekly Banner , May 31, 1892; “Georgia and Florida,” Savannah Morning News , April 3, 1883...
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