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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Joshua Frens-String Abstract This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural...
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Modernization in the Periphery: The Introduction of the Tractor in Chile, 1910–1935
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
Published: 01 July 2020
... was a learning process for Chilean agriculturalists. The first “mammoth” steam tractors proved unsuitable for Chile’s farming practices, but, as US manufacturers produced more efficient models and local distributors successfully marketed them, landowners learned about their advantages. In the 1920s they adopted...
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Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 427–429.
Published: 01 July 2016
... production of invisibility (3). Making their way from Valparaíso to San Francisco, Chileans became some of the first prospectors in the California Gold Rush of 1848, and Chilean ships literally became a part of the San Francisco waterfront as they were deconstructed for building homes or refashioned...
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Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Cold War Consumption in Chile and the United States
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 488–489.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the United States. By heidi Tinsman. durham: duke university press, 2014. 376 pp., $26.96, paperback. isBn 978 0 8223 5535 9. Buying into the Regime is a compelling history of chilean grapes during the cold War. it spans a tumultuous period in chilean (and us) history, spanning the leftist governments...
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Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and India
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 489–491.
Published: 01 July 2015
... 2015 Book Reviews justify itself by pointing to the abundance of consumer goods it provided to everyday chileans. This boom in consumption transformed gender relations. As chilean grape exports expanded, many women sought employment in the packinghouses. in many cases they became the principal wage...
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The Historical Animal
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 429–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
... academics and botanical materials (159). The Davis Boys and Chicago Boys Chilean intellectuals who studied in those cities returned to work with both the Allende and Pinochet regimes. Melillo discusses the 1973 coup and California s fascinating Chilean exile community before detailing a 2008 meeting...
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The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 459–461.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of the development of Peruvian and Chilean fisheries in the context of the expansion of global food production in the second half of the twentieth century. Moreover, Kristin A. Wintersteen stresses the importance of environmental changes in her historical analysis of agricultural products. In so doing, she not only...
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New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Jeremy Vetter University of Arizona Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Cold War Consumption in Chile and the United States. By heidi Tinsman. durham: duke university press, 2014. 376 pp., $26.96, paperback. isBn 978 0 8223 5535 9. Buying into the Regime is a compelling history of chilean grapes during...
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Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 May 2025
... and internment in Salesian missions, and the separation of Selk'nam children from their parents to make way for sheep ranching. Starting in the 1880s, the Chilean and Argentine governments took over Indigenous territory and sold or leased it to sheep ranchers, including the largest ranching operation...
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Nitrogen Nation: The Legacy of World War I and the Politics of Chemical Agriculture in the United States, 1916–1933
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
... nitrogen to revolutionize the way the united states would wage war and feed itself.14 Before the nitrate plants were built, however, manufacturing explosives was siphoning off Chilean nitrate supplies for fertilizer-hungry farms. in an attempt to help farmers, Congress passed the Food and Fuel Control law...
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On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 538–565.
Published: 01 October 2014
... informant, the Chilean-born sociologist 548 2014 On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans josé Cazanga. A far more ironic and less politically charged image of the passing of the Tournons hegemony was provided by josé Angel Bolaños, an early co-op member in Heredia. He recounted his dealings as a seasonal...
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Imagining Alfalfastan: Plant Exploration, Technopolitics, Colonialism, and the Environment in the American West and Russian Central Asia, 1897–1930
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
... on the problem of irrigation and paid little attention to developing superior varieties of alfalfa. Instead of Turkestan or Khiva, most of the alfalfa grown in the Southwest at the turn of the century came from Chilean alfalfas via California. Early farmers had good success with these Chilean varieties...
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Fertilization Practices in Pacific Northwest Wheat-Producing Areas
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 433–450.
Published: 01 April 2000
... in the Northwest, which came from Chilean guano deposits and was 15 percent nitrogen), sulfate of ammonia, and calcium cyanamid (which was danger? ous to handle because it could cause burns and clothing could catch fire). Organic sources were dried blood (12 percent nitrogen) and bone meal (4 5. See Nelson...
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The “Age of Agricultural Ignorance”: Trends and Concerns for Agriculture Knee-Deep into the Twenty–First Century
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
... showed how Peruvian guano enabled agricultural production all over Europe and North America and fostered competitive natural fertilizer industries in various parts of the Pacific. Melillo explored how the California gold fields were dependent on the introduction of Chilean wheat and alfalfa to feed...
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Dissertations and Theses, 2003–2005
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 220–254.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... "Soil Conservation and Market Constraints: The Case of Small Farmers in El Salvador." South Dakota State University, Brookings (USA), 2003. Rytkonen, Paulina Ines. "Fruits of Capitalism: Modernisation of Chilean Agriculture, 1950-2000." Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2004. Salvador, Sergio. "El Desempefio...
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Fermenting a Twenty–First Century California Wine Industry
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 438–465.
Published: 01 October 2004
... with global vintibusinesses as a means to make up for losses due to increased international wine imports. In the mid-1980s, in a fast-paced complex series of sales, international wine man Agustin Huneeus, ex-Seagrams executive and past owner of Chilean Concha y Toro Winery, took over Franciscan Vineyards...
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Between War and Water: Farmer, City, and State in China's Yellow River Flood of 1938–1947
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 94–116.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the chilean coup of 1973 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This is how the shock doctrine works, she explains. The original disaster the coup, the terrorist attack, the market meltdown, the war, the tsunami, the hurricane puts the entire population into a state of collective shock. Socalled disaster...
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Beekeeping from the South: The Yucatán Peninsula's “Industrious Bee” and the Rise of Modern Apiculture
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2024
... XIX .” PhD diss., CIESAS-Peninsular , 2014 . Robles-Ortiz Claudio . “ Mechanisation in the Periphery: The Experience of Chilean Agriculture, c. 1850–90 .” Rural History 29 , no. 2 ( 2018 ): 195 – 216 . Schüren Ute . “ Rationalität oder Irrationalität bäuerlichen...
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“Food for Peace is a Moral Program”: The Intersection of Agricultural and Human Rights Policy during the Carter Administration
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 132–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Clymer, “Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia,” Diplomatic History 27, no. 2 (Apr. 2003): 245-78; Alan McPherson, “Letelier Diplomacy: Non-State Actors and U.S.-Chilean Relations,” Diplomatic History 43, no. 3 (June 2019): 445-68; William Michael Schmidli, “Institutionalizing Human Rights in U.S...
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