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... 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 an unlabeled container with carob-coated almonds...

...Warren M. Billings Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia’s Gentry, 1700–1860 . Laura Croghan Kamoie . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring Thisbook willstandas thedefinitivwe orkon theNegroDivisioninTexas...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... the importance of chattel credit in the agricultural mechanization that occurred during these years. This type of credit involved smaller principal sums than land credit but was a significant element in the business and commercial processes of the town and although more costly than land credit the difference...

... reformers in the United States, he addressed the problems of rural poverty and land concentration not with socialism, but with visions of a Mexico filled with small, capitalistic, home-owning farmers producing with scientific methods and business efficiency. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society...

... 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...

... and tenancy, which they considered to be the basis of southern problems. The poultry industry--today the model for contract farming and a multi-million-dollar business--grew out of the crop lien system, an institution thought to be the root of southern poverty. Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society...

.... Lasting into the 1990s Mid-States’s legacy lives on in the personnel who have gone on to from new businesses and practices, as well as in the many patients who recived treatment over the years. Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Notes 1 Arthur E. Hertzler de¬ scribed...

.... The combination of both notarial and court of justice registers provides a perspective on the multiple businesses of those families and offers insights into the general trends of European rural elites in the Middle Ages, as well as specific information about those in Valencia. © the Agricultural History Society...