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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 648–649.
Published: 01 October 2018
...David K. Hecht Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 . By David D. Vail . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2018 . 168 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1973-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
...James E. McWilliams Abstract The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
... incendiary weapons during war and chemical fertilizer during peacetime. This essay examines how the Unied States entered a new era in agricultural production in spite of the government's bungled job of enacting its mandate. It argues that 1916 marked a turning point after which federal research helped usher...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Elena Conis The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth . By Frank A. von Hippel . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 368 pp., $29.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2266-9724-6. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 280–282.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of Mississippi Pesticides, A Love Story: America s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. By Michelle Mart. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 336 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2128-6. A multitude of scholars, scientists, and policymakers have struggled to explain why pesticide use went up...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 339–341.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Adam Romero The use of industrial chemicals to eradicate foliage in the name of economic, scientific, and military progress was a cornerstone of post–World War II US policy. Needless to say, their use also provoked significant controversy within the United States and across the world...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of sustainability occurred gradually, as the network of actors and institutions took shape and the use of artificial fertilizers and other chemical inputs gained acceptance. Alternatives to grossly simplified conceptions of soil fertility and increasing specialization, including the biological-dynamic agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of negotiations involving political, economic, religious, and scientific considerations. Thomas Apel Chemical Heritage Foundation George Washington Written upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape. By Philip Levy. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015. 293 pp. $79.99, hardback, ISBN 978-1...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of renowned chemists such as Wilhelm Henneberg and Louis Grandeau. The mission of these laboratories was to acquaint the local farming community with the new scientific approach to farming, which included the use of chemical fertilizers. The laboratory scientists hoped to achieve this through education...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 70–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
... around the oil industry and its waste byproducts. The petrochemicals and subterranean chemical warfare that were developed during this time became industrial agriculture's chemical salvation, providing both the soil disinfection power and the soil nutrition that made the massive yield increases...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Michael E. Staub Abstract This article recovers and analyzes the sophisticated corporate response to environmentalist concerns already in the 1960s about the radical disruption of the nitrogen cycle that governs life on the planet caused by intensified application of chemical fertilizers. In 1971...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 500–531.
Published: 01 July 2021
... for agriculture that transcends a zero-sum approach to food reform. Activists who recognized how exposure to toxic chemicals blurred boundaries between the bodies and health of workers, consumers, and wildlife joined forces in Swanton, which came to be a rare example of a farm trying to achieve what its owner...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
...J. L. Anderson Abstract American farmers of the postwar period reduced labor requirements for production through the use of new machines and chemicals. Farm work was increasingly managerial and less physical. Observers struggled with how to represent this businesslike and technocratic farmer, first...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 346–360.
Published: 01 July 2004
...James Watson Abstract During the early 1930s many New Zealand farmers enthusiastically adopted the highly inflammable chemical sodium chlorate as a weedicide against ragwort. This development reflected many aspects of New Zealand farming at the time. Dairying was expanding rapidly, reducing...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
... research institutes, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and the Central Rice Research Institute. The article revises the argument that scientific research was of little importance to India's agricultural development policy before the coming of the capital- and chemical-intensive Green Revolution...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 22–50.
Published: 01 January 2016
... dynamic regions, utilized plows or similar equipment or applied chemical fertilizers. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. For studies on coffee districts, see, Stanley J. Stein , Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 248–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the risks tied to chemical components that potentially had other more mundane and culturally endorsed uses. 26. Holmes and Goodall, Telling Environmental Histories ; Williams and Riley, “Challenge of Oral History to Environmental History” ; Jones et al., “Complicating the Story.” 27...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
... banana monocultures of the surrounding area. While United Fruit's infamous plantations depended on the application of pesticides and chemical knowledge to produce a single commodity crop, its Lancetilla Experiment Station pursued a broad research program oriented toward agricultural diversification...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a chemical company to one focused on biotechnology. Monsanto was determined to keep Roundup a viable product. The solution, achieved by bioengineering crops to resist the herbicide, allowed farmers to apply it year-round, saving on labor and herbicide costs. In the process, the company exercised more...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 319–323.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the monograph. In making the argument that chemical pest control was an offshoot of industrial waste, Romero has to explain many aspects of industrial manufacturing—each time with each chemical in each chapter. He meets the challenge. Every chapter has fewer notes than the previous one. Oddly, the book lacks...
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