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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 3. Map of Central Railroad of Georgia, 1895. The Central Railroad of Georgia ran directly through the heart of Georgia peach country and served as the primary carrier of produce by rail or in its steamships out of Savannah. Its monopolistic power over growers was only strengthened More
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 378–379.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey Charles Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project . By Tim Stroshane . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 234 pp. $32.95 , paperback, ISBN: 978-1-9438-5906-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 378 Agricultural History...
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing photo shows, orchards were often massive enterprises requiring vast amounts of capital. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p. More
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Amanda Van Lanen Abstract Washington's orchard output grew dramatically after the arrival of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways in 1885 and 1893, respectively. The railroads and local real estate boosters promoted central Washington's desert as an orchard paradise, “where dollars grow...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Osaak Olumwullah Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa . By Kathryn M. de Luna . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2016 . 352 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-3002-1853-4 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Footnotes 1...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 402–404.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Jessica H. Howell Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin . By Maya K. Peterson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 416 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-47547-1. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 402 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 553–555.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Allison Margaret Bigelow The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 . By Sophie Brockmann . Cambridge : University of Cambridge Press , 2020 . 283 pp., $99.99 hardback , ISBN 9781108421232. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
...John B. Seitz Abstract On the eve of the twentieth century, plant explorers from the United States such as Neils E. Hansen traveled to Russian Central Asia in search of new cold-hardy and drought-resistant alfalfa varieties. Hansen’s travels and the work of other alfalfa boosters would help create...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 440–442.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Jeffrey Charles Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project . By Tim Stroshane . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 234 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-9438-5906-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 440 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 113–115.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Eric Steiger The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley . By Philip Garone . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 448 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26663-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 278–280.
Published: 01 April 2013
...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...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 224–245.
Published: 01 April 2013
... connecting winegrowers to distant consumers. As new technologies, modern commercial strategies, and the burgeoning field of enology revolutionized the Central European wine trade, German and Austrian winegrowers struggled to remain competitive. Political parties and other pressure groups portrayed the Jewish...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Zaheer Baber Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century . Laxman D. Satya . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews tieth century. These economic pressures were the result of Thai-Mien in teractions; for example, only largeMien...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 273–274.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Jim Mochoruk Uniting in Measures of Common Good: The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada . Darren Ferry . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews Althoughthenumberofphotographasnd theformat(thebook is nine inchesbyteninches...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 April 2010
...GREY OSTERUD Abstract In contrast to both the critique of rural backwardness made by the Country Life Movement and the lament about rural declension expressed by proponents of agrarianism, the history of the Nanticoke Valley of south-central New York State demonstrates the possibilities for rural...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 480–481.
Published: 01 July 2015
...David Bello Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736–1949 . By Jiayan Zhang . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2014 . 292 pp., $35.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-2596-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Terry Rugeley Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula . Vernon L. Scarborough , Fred Valdez Jr. and Nicholas Dunning . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 382 / Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., Spengler has produced an important and erudite book that should raise interest in and awareness of decades of investigations regarding plant-human interaction in central Asia over the last five thousand years. Fruit from the Sands should spark new interest in this critical area of research and shows...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 April 2018
... interested in environmental protection, and particularly its social dimensions, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers a timely reminder of the inseparability of environmental issues from those of social inequality (397). Joshua M. Nygren University of Central Missouri Not Talking...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., Chinese environmental history, and diplomatic history. Zach Smith University of Central Arkansas A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800 1929. By Behnaz A. Mirzai. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 344 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1186-8. Behnaz Mirzai surveys the history...