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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 84–120.
Published: 01 February 2023
... agricultural modernization programs and activities in Colombia in the 1950s and 1960s. Where the Rockefeller Foundation promoted Colombian wheat production, the USDA and other US-based agencies criticized that production and instead promoted the importation of US-grown wheat through the PL 480 program...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., and the difficulties of tropical ranching. © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 NOTES 1. Robert Cunninghame Graham , “Meat from Colombia,” July 31 , 1917 ; “Meat Supplies: Cattle Resources of Colombia Report,” 1917 , 13/81 , Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 359–361.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. By Lina Del Castillo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 402 pp., $30.00, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4962-0548-3. Historians writing on the early republican history of Spanish America struggle to convey how deeply public life was shaped by a sense of new, previously...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., "The Varietal Revolution in Porto Rico," 24 C. B. Schedvin , "Environment, Economy, and Aus¬ tralian Biology, 1890-1939," Historical Studies82 (April1984): 11 -28 10 Marco Palacios , Coffee in Colombia, 1850–1970: An Economic, Social, and Political History (Cambridge: Cambridge...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 687–689.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Timothy Lorek Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise . By Lina Britto . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . 352 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-5203-2547-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 687 Marijuana Boom...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 751–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 224 pp., $25.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-2265-1613-4. Colombia is the world s fourth-largest producer of palm oil. First appearing in the 1960s, African oil palm plantations are spreading across the country at a rapid clip, thanks to a strange conjunction...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the Agricultural History Society 2022 Historian Yesenia Barragan has produced a profound and cutting-edge interpretation of American freedom and unfreedom. In Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific , Barragan weaves a case study of Colombia into the larger fabric...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 108–140.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflicted Landscapes in Colombia. He is also co-editor (with Andra B. Chastain) of Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America s Long Cold War (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming March 2020). He has a PhD in history from...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 555–557.
Published: 01 July 2021
... in the Americas. By Amy C. Offner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 400 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 9780691190938. This ambitious transnational study of state-building and policy making in the United States and Colombia during the mid-twentieth century relies on extensive archival and oral history...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., Queensland (Australia), Hawai i, Colombia, and Java.22 Java the island from where we get that nickname for coffee serves as another reminder of the transnational nature of world commodities and with a similar development trajectory as sugar. As its Latin name purports, Coffea arabica was first cultivated...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 397–422.
Published: 01 July 2017
... transformation, and agrarian politics in Colombia s Cauca Valley. Tore C. Olsson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. His first book, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside, was published by Princeton University Press in July 2017. Olsson has...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 250–251.
Published: 01 April 2017
... capitalists in that country, in particular the work of Steve Striffler, and also adheres to the standard banana republic narrative of the Caribbean basin from the 1910s onward, in particular for Guatemala and Honduras, and to a lesser degree Limon, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean coast of Colombia...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 256–257.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the Caribbean basin (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico), Spain, and Portugal. Wheat weaves them together in a story that is compelling, eloquent, and full of the experiences of ordinary people of African, Spanish, and Portuguese descent. His command of secondary sources is also adept. It is unfortunate...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 358–359.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. By Lina Del Castillo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 402 pp., $30.00, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4962-0548-3. Historians writing on the early republican history of Spanish America struggle to convey how deeply public life was shaped by a sense of new, previously...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 553–555.
Published: 01 July 2021
... States and Colombia during the mid-twentieth century relies on extensive archival and oral history research across a broad geography. Offner posits that One way of tracing the route from the New Deal to the Great So- ...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 557–559.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... This book is essential reading for historians of development and public policy in the twentieth-century Americas. Agricultural historians will be particularly interested in Offner s analysis of Colombia s early 1960s land reform and the questions that this raises about the nature of land reform in other...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 254–256.
Published: 01 April 2017
... researched volume. Its five appendices demonstrate the archival depth of the project and can potentially reveal new research directions to other specialists. Wheat s primary sources are as transatlantic as the project itself, with their origin in archives all over the Caribbean basin (Colombia, Dominican...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of the British Royal Botanic Gardens . New York : Academic , 1979 . Bucheli Marcelo . Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000 . New York : New York University Press , 2005 . Bucheli Marcelo . Empresas multinacionales y enclaves agrícolas: El Caso de United...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 272–292.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., "The Impact of Technical Change on Income Distribution: The Case of Rice in Colombia," American Journal of Agricultural Economics60 (February1978): 85 -92 Barry L. Price , The Political Economy of Mechanization in U.S. Agriculture (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983 ) Old South, 246–47...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 103–112.
Published: 01 February 2024
... . Leal Claudia , and Ausdal Shawn Van . “ Landscapes of Freedom and Inequality: Environmental Histories of the Pacific and Caribbean Coasts of Colombia .” DesiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 58 , 2013 https://www.desigualdades.net/Resources/Working_Paper/58-WP-Leal-and-Van-Ausdal...