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Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 440–441.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Margaret Sibbitt Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots . The Groundwater Foundation . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Summer book, like the wine, is expensive, and by limiting herself to one hundred twentypages-further reduced by over...
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The Incidental Environmentalists: Dale Bumpers, George Templeton, and the Origins of the Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center at the University of Arkansas
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 January 2015
... management. Meanwhile, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, a wilderness environmentalist, cultivated a similar point of view. By 1989 a meeting of the minds occurred between the two men, which resulted in a congressional appropriation of $1.4 million and the founding of the Alternative Pest Control Center...
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Penn Center: A History Preserved
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 269–270.
Published: 01 April 2016
...James H. Tuten Penn Center: A History Preserved . By Orville Vernon Burton, with Wilbur Cross . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2014 . 232 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-2602-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews the book is the lack...
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With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Leo Chu Abstract This article studies the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) in Taiwan. It begins with the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR), a US-funded agency championing plant breeding and land reform. Capitalizing on Japanese colonial legacy...
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Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 373–374.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Peter Iverson Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place . David E. Stuart . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 373 Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Roadfrom Center Place. By David E. Stuart. Albuquerque: University...
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Map of the Orchard Center camp, as remembered by Gloria Kates and Betty Bro...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 November 2023
figure 2. Map of the Orchard Center camp, as remembered by Gloria Kates and Betty Brown, 2021. Map outline courtesy of Beverly Carr.
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Farming the Desert: Agriculture in the World War II–Era Japanese-American Relocation Centers
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 74–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
... During World War II:A Historical Study of the Manzanar War Relocation Center (Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1996), 123-85; Burton et al., Confinement and Ethnicity, 59, 101, 215, 259. 10 Wendell W. Palmer, "Closing Report, Agricultural Section, Central Utah Project, Topaz, Utah," Sec. B3...
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Maps showing major agricultural research institutes in Taiwan, with the pro...
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in With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. Maps showing major agricultural research institutes in Taiwan, with the proposed center highlighted in the box. “Asian Vegetable Development Center,” May 1967, 3801A, 12, Academia Historica, Taipei.
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in In Pursuit of “Man-Made Evolution”: Peaceful Atoms, Circulatory Knowledge, and Atomic Agriculture in India
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2. A cartoon published in The Indian Express on the use of isotopes and radiation in agriculture. National Center for Biological Sciences Archives.
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Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Francesco Cassata Abstract Established in 1960 near Rome and supported by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Casaccia Center for Nuclear Studies played a fundamental role in transforming what became known as “mutation breeding” from an uncertain set...
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Five Centuries of Farming: A Short History of Dutch Agriculture 1500–2000
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 98–99.
Published: 01 April 2012
... as the ecological essentials of farming. Unfortunately, the author refrains from situating Dutch developments in an international context, thus leaving the reader to wonder what precisely made the country s export-oriented agro-industrial complex so successful. Frank Uekoetter Rachel Carson Center Munich Wir Frauen...
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The “Lost Region” No More: Making the Case for a Revival of Midwestern Regional History
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 744–750.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Sara Egge Featured Review The Lost Region No More: Making the Case for a Revival of Midwestern Regional History Sara Egge Centre College Finding a New Midwestern History. Edited by Jon Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 396 pp., $55.00...
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Carnival in the Countryside: The History of the Iowa State Fair
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 454–456.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Agricultural History pork-chops-on-a-stick, waiting in line to see the famous Butter Cow, and people watching on the Midway. Rasmussen s book illuminates the contentious history of this iconic event. Sarah Egge Centre College Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands. By Timothy...
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The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 275–277.
Published: 01 April 2018
...). Brett Bannor The Atlanta History Center Cotton and Race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900 1920. By Jonathan E. Robins. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016. 310 pp., $110.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-5804-6567-0. There is much to admire in Jonathan E. Robins s analysis...
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Hemp and the Global Economy: The Rise of Labor, Innovation, and Trade
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to the growing body of literature. Andrew Patrick Centre College The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis. By Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 422 pp., $45.00, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4422-0967-1. The Social History of Agriculture...
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Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the US Heartland
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and its corn growers and could have been a bit more critical, including a more thorough look at the environmental effects of monoculture in the region. Nevertheless, this book does a great job of telling how corn has shaped the Midwest both geographically and culturally. Annka Liepold Rachel Carson Center...
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Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940)
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 494–496.
Published: 01 August 2023
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First FAO/IAEA International Training Course on the Use of Radiation and ot...
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 6. First FAO/IAEA International Training Course on the Use of Radiation and other Mutagen Treatments for Crop Improvement at the Casaccia Center, May–June 1969. Luigi Rossi private archive.
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“Dairy Products Build Superior People,” 1933, Century of Progress Internati...
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in The Honey Pond and the Flapjack Tree: The USDA at Two World Fairs, 1933–1940
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 5. “Dairy Products Build Superior People,” 1933, Century of Progress International Exposition Publications, Crerar MS 226, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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The New Agricultural College and the New Agricultural History
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 525–533.
Published: 01 October 2013
... also overtaken the scholarly discipline of agricultural history. Health and longevity, sustainability and environmentalism have assumed center stage. Whether deliberate or en passant, these new metrics have first supplemented and, in many cases finally supplanted, race, gender, and class as useful...
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