... Sharp Luther College Building Nature s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 288 pp., $35.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-50137-6. Seeking a natural snack, a hungry shopper in a grocery store these days could fill up...

...David L. Lightner Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History . Simon M. Evans , Sarah Carter and Bill Yeo . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 616 / Agricultural History developments elsewhere in Prussia, let alone...

...Ryan Poe Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902–1954 . By Sherry Laymon . Little Rock : Butler Center of Books , 2009 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-9800897-7-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Aviva Chomsky The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America . By Jason M. Colby . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 . 288 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4915-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

... explanation of how all these conditions came together in the high-bred horse business on one very large ranch in southern Alberta. The author’s central argument is frontier ranching proved uneconomic in this case and thus in many others on both sides of the Canadian/American border. Copyright 2005...

..., anddespitethefactthatthisperiodis oftenexplainedintermsoftheriseof themachinei,twasactuallya goldenage forhorses. Ownersand usersviewedhorsesas machinesto be used and discarded withhardlya thoughtb,uttensionalwaysexistedbetweentheideasofhorses 263 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Irons in the Fire: The Business...

...James Opp A Business History of Alberta . Henry C. Klassen . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 501 Shambaugh Award in 2000 for the "most significant book in Iowa history." However, the audience for Reynolds's work is not limited to those focused on Iowa...

...Thomas D. Isern Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History . Simon Evans , Sarah Carter and Bill Yeo . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 527 Immigration, cultural diffusion, and the market also created...

...Erica Hannickel The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants . Jane S. Smith . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews returnys ieldsnumbersthatleave one wonderingexactlywhat"significant" means(even...

...Sharon Ann Murphy Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island . By Christy Clark-Pujara . New York : NYU Press , 2016 . 224 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4798-7042-4 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 130 Agricultural History in Kansas, down from almost...

... to managerial business practices like cost accounting. The books, which enslavers prized for their ability to monitor overseers and discipline recordkeeping habits, were one part of a violent, capitalist, and chaotic system of extracting cotton from enslaved people and southern soils, rather than a sign...

...Daniel T. Gresham Abstract This article explores the ideology of the leaders of the Farmers’ Independence Council of America (FIC) in order to understand why they created a conservative front group. FIC leaders Stanley Morse, Dan Casement, and Kurt Grunwald admired big business, favored limited...

...Victor W. Geraci Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, California wineries entered a new vinti-business (vertical integration of grape farming, wine production, and wine distribution) era based on the needs of a global wine economy by adapting historic survival lessons learned from...

... promoting space age, push-button imagery and then the notion of the “farmer in the business suit, “ before turning away from images of actual farm folk toward increasingly hyper-masculine paid models. This shift also corresponded with challenges to traditional masculinity, including the Cold War, the Farm...

...Bryant K. Barnes Abstract Georgia fruit growers embodied the intelligent, business-minded mentality about which New South boosters preached. Rather than stubbornly adding to the already glutted cotton markets, these modern farmers diversified. In supplying urban markets with fruit and truck...

... from scratch, followed plans prepared by technical experts, or bought pre-fabricated units, and used them in confinement operations as well as smaller-scale cow-calf, sow-piglet, and sheep-lamb operations. The tool could simultaneously reflect good business practice, resistance to production...

... government rarely intervened in enterprises undertaken by business organizations. More significantly, perhaps, historians found the well–accepted account appealing because it contains colorful actors and a rousing angels–versus–devils storyline. © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 NOTES 1...

.... Barrett forced fellow commissioners to confront the existence of a rift between small farmers and organized labor on the one hand, and large agricultural and business interests on the other. The commission's encounter with immigration is emblematic of its general hesitancy to address issues arising from...

... limitations and political obstacles in their efforts to conquer water, accomplishing only parts of the grandiose vision. Ultimately, salty waters and poor drainage doomed the project. While the livestock industry survived and the oil business thrived in the subsequent decades, the dream of idyllic irrigated...