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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 520–539.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt formed the Country Life Commission to address contemporary concerns over the state of rural America. One of the issues that commissioners planned to address provoked an internal impasse: the relationship of immigration to agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 77–103.
Published: 01 July 2012
... opinions were shared by the congressmen and commissioners.7 The Commission on Country Life submitted its completed report to Roosevelt on January 23, 1909. More than a century later many of its insights and wide-ranging recommendations for sustainable living are still compelling and strikingly relevant...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 289–316.
Published: 01 July 2004
... technocracy over democracy. According to Theobald, "the Country Life Commission was an example of a conscious, concerted effort to move the circumstances of American life out of the hands of the people themselves and into the hands of ex? perts. Although the commissioners purportedly listened to country...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 381–402.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Commission on Migratory Labor in American agriculture in 1950. In its report, the commission recommended extending a variety of social legislation and economic protections to domestic farm labor, and it further recommended slowing or ending the importation of foreign, particularly Mexican, workers...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 October 2009
... multiple obstacles. Extensive reading (whether books, farm journals, or newspapers) was limited to those who had access to publications and could make time to read. The South Dakota Free Library Commission was valuable in circulating reading materials to the state’s rural population. In the 1930s...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 600–628.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Matthew C. Godfrey Abstract In 1918 and 1919, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was investigated by the US Bureau of Immigration, the US Department of Labor, and Idaho’s Labor Commission for the living conditions of Mexican laborers under its employ. Ultimately, the sugar corporation was exonerated...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 August 2023
... trained at Yale and Princeton, lobbied the US Congress to pass the China Aid Act in 1948, which led to the establishment of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR). The JCRR adopted English as its official communication language and included two American commissioners...
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in Exploring Agriculture in the Age of Industrial Capitalism: Swiss Farmers and Agronomists in North America and the Transnational Entanglements of Agricultural Knowledge, 1870s to 1950s
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Many farmers and agronomists, among them Franz Müller, came to North America on commissioned tours such as the Swiss Mission for Economic Studies in North America in 1919. © Swiss Federal Archives, Bern, E2200.36-07#1000/1741#67*: Wirtschaftliche Studienreise von Schweizern nach
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in With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 1. A JCRR meeting in the 1950s. Left to right, secretary-general Jiang Yanshi, the five commissioners—Shen Zonghan, William Fippin, chairman Jiang Menglin, Raymond Davis, Qian Tianhe—and acting secretary Frances Lee. Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, General Report VIII (Taipei
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 459–483.
Published: 01 October 2016
... the commission s approach to the friar lands. The commissioners hoped that sale of the lands to the current tenants would recoup the purchase price and meet the rate of interest while cultivating loyal 466 2016 From Small Farms to Progressive Plantations landowners. yet the bureau of Public lands, for reasons...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... with Sheyda Jahanbani , Sara Gregg , Greg Cushman , Ted Wilson , Johan Feddema , Donald Worster , and Vaughn Scribner . Joe Musial , Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom! ( New York : King Features Syndicate , 1949 ), 31 . 2. US Atomic Energy Commission , Sixth Semiannual...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 February 2024
... to address the “crisis” created by foot-and-mouth-disease, or aftosa , in Mexico during the postwar period, Rath instead foregrounds a multiplicity of perspectives over six chapters, based largely on US records of the commission that Rath claims has remained untouched other than by US Department...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 379–399.
Published: 01 July 2016
... the agrarian commission of the SDAP described the rural colonies as a failure. “Minutes of the agrarian commission of the SDAP,” 1904 , 320 , Archive of the SDAP, International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam, Netherlands (hereafter IISH). 9. Terence J. Byres , “The Agrarian Question...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 2004
... national community--speaks to the tenacity of ethnic culture in the countryside and its ability to support resistance to larger hegemonic forces. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 Joseph Bussen to Commission of Public Safety, January 2, 1918, Main Files, Minnesota Public...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 208–219.
Published: 01 April 2002
...," Saturday Evening Post , 13 September1941, 20 -21, 39, 41-42, 44
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, "The Great Salmon Experi¬ ment," Harper’s , February1945, 229 -36 9 Postwar
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and Development Commission, " Progress Report of the Postwar Readjustment and Development Commission of the State...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Society, 2013 2013 NOTES 1. Jawaharlal Nehru , The Discovery of India ( New York : John Day , 1946 ), chpt. 1; Planning Commission , First Five Year Plan ( New Delhi : Planning Commission of India , 1952 ), chpt. 11. 2. Planning Commission , First Five Year Plan , chpt...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 487–511.
Published: 01 November 2022
... farmer said. 11 Three years before Lorick's eviction orders came through, the US Commission on Civil Rights issued a bombshell report on the state of Black farmers, in which the commission complained that although “FmHA credit programs have the capability to provide immediate direct assistance...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 140–154.
Published: 01 April 2004
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, Davisville ’68: The History and Heritage of the City of Davis, Yolo County, California (Davis: Davis Historical and Landmarks Commission, 1969 ), 38 -39 Yolo County, "Miscellaneous Records," Book A, 172–80, YCA Joann Leach
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, Winters: A Heritage of Horticulture, A Harmony of Purpose...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 321–346.
Published: 01 July 2005
... "Article XII of the Organic Statutes of the Greek Refugees Settlement Commission," League of Nations, Official Journal , C523.M.86, 1924 [B], Sept. 29 , 1927, CUL Brainerd P.
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, Special Commissioner of the Greek Minister of Public Assistance " Statement regarding the refugee situation...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... for any interest payments on loans for the purpose of modernizing sugar operations. 41 Despite the stream of pleas from sugar planters, the members of the Royal Commission did not see the Jamaican sugar industry in need of significant aid. In their concluding report, the commissioners described...
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