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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 October 2004
... Atack and Fred Bateman, "Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crop Yields and Labor Productivity Growth in American Agriculture: a New Look At Parker and Klein," Research in Economic History ( Supplement 3 ) ( 1984 ): 215 -42 Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman, To Their Own Soil: Agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 159–181.
Published: 01 April 2007
... in the Twentieth Century ," in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas , ed. Frank Saloman and Stuart B. Schwartz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999 ), 765 -871; Vincent C. Peloso , Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 391–419.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Donald J. Pisani Abstract "Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century" looks at four phases in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation. The first phase lasted from the adoption of the Reclamation Act of 1902 into the 1930s. In those years, the bureau attempted to create...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Joan M. Jensen Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors . Frank Smoot . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews government's agricultural and industrial policies from 1940 onward. In es sence,Wright concluded that theMexican...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 422–423.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Preston E. Pierce Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York . Thomas Summerhill . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Summer also the inter-relations and interactions between field and forest villages, open-field-arable...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 420–422.
Published: 01 July 2007
...J. V. Beckett Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century . Barry Reay . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Summer Economists, interestingly,generally likeBoserup's work. This is, inpart, because she has a demographic component to her...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 34–49.
Published: 01 January 2004
... the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999 ), 46 -52 Paul Theobald , Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995 ), 159 -63 Danbom...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 443–463.
Published: 01 October 2007
...-and Mission Santa Clara was more typical than exceptional-were the leading edge of a tide that reached full flood by themiddle of the 1850s. As Paul Wallace Gates demon strated in his brilliant series of essays on California land policies in the nineteenth century, no state had more of a "squatter problem...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
... declined in the postbellum era, but southern farmers continued to improve a far smaller percentage of their land well into the twentieth century. Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Notes 1 Farm Journal of Julian Ruffin, Ruffin Papers, Mss1:R838a 818, Virginia Historical Society...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Ian J. Jesse Abstract Canada experienced a surge of fur farming during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of fashion. The practice was promoted as a relatively easy way in which rural people could earn great income. In the province of New Brunswick, where cash-earning...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Benjamin R. Cohen The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History . By Richard Lyman Bushman . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2018 . 400 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-3002-2673-7. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 147...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Douglas Helms Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America . Steven Stoll . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 123 Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America. By Steven Stoll. New York: Hill and Wang...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 296–297.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Leni Sorensen Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America . By Jennifer Jensen-Wallach . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-4521-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Margaret E. Derry Abstract In the twentieth century a conflict arose between geneticists and practical breeders over which theory of heredity should direct animal breeding strategies and methods. Two different approaches existed and competed with each other over how to develop a breeding...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 496–498.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Jackson R. Perry Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World . By Andrea E. Duffy . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9097-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 683–684.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Chris Deutsch Moveable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City . By Helen Tangires . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2019 . 312 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2747-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 683 criticize...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 568–599.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the widespread use of enslaved labor. As a conceptually reconfigured site, Pinar del Río offers a new narrative of Cuban tobacco, one that identifies and understands the area as an additional site of slave commodity production in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Through a pattern of interconnected...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Brett L. Walker Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan . Simon Partner . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 132 / Agricultural History Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Simon Partner. Berkeley: University of California...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Robert Peden Abstract The burning of the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand by pastoralists in the second half of the nineteenth century has been highly contentious. The dogma of "indiscriminate burning" has become so entrenched in New Zealand’s environmental history that critics...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 375–376.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Pete Daniel The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America . Joshua Blu Buhs . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 375 debate, the author observes that "cattlemen and ranchers in Lee County's rural eastern section wanted...