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From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000

Juliette Levy
Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 557–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.557
Published: 01 October 2008
...Juliette Levy From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 . Steven Topik , Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews richer because of his venture...
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Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937

Evan P. Bennett
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 261–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.4.261
Published: 01 October 2012
...Evan P. Bennett Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937 . By Barbara Hahn . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 . 246 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-0286-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Making...
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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

Jennifer L. Anderson
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 259–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.259
Published: 01 April 2017
...Jennifer L. Anderson Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History . Edited by Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . $100.00 , 224 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-1-137-38109-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History...
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and its Global Commodities

Brian Schoen
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 575–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.4.575
Published: 01 October 2017
...Brian Schoen Plantation Kingdom: The American South and its Global Commodities . By Richard Follet, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2016 . 165 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1940-4 . © 2017 Agricultural...
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Commodities, Ports, and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

Lauren Minsky
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 563–565.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.563
Published: 01 October 2016
..., this treatment of castes in the later chapters in the book will leave readers wanting more. The findings of this book for the larger agricultural history of South asia are noteworthy. Prakash Kumar Pennsylvania State University Commodities, Ports, and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750. edited by ulbe bosma...
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The Myth of Cuban Tobacco: Pinar Del Río and the Rise of Plantation Production during the Nineteenth Century

William A. Morgan
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 568–599.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.4.568
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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"Hop to the Top with the Iowa Chop": The Iowa Porkettes and Cultivating Agrarian Feminisms in the Midwest, 1964–1992

JENNY BARKER DEVINE
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 477–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.4.477
Published: 01 October 2009
... transformed a women’s auxiliary into a female-led commodity organization. Initially, members participated in appropriately ’’ feminine" activities including Pork Queen contests, lard-baking contests, consultations with high school home economics instructors, and the distribution of promotional materials...
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Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests: Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry

S. Max Edelson
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 381–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.381
Published: 01 July 2007
... the land’s capacity for market agriculture. Slaves cleared land of its wood to prepare the terrain for planting, provide Britain’s empire with vital commodities, and build the infrastructure of daily material life in the region. As colonists and slaves came into sustained engagement with this landscape...
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Viticulture in El Paso del Norte during the Colonial Period

Rick Hendricks
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 191–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.191
Published: 01 April 2004
... important were these commodities to the economy of El Paso that every year as many farmers grew grapes to produce wine and brandy as any other product. Traditionally, most of the annual production was consumed locally, although there was a brisk export trade south to Chihuahua and north to Albuquerque...
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No Longer Wild but “Wildstock”: Fox Farming in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick

Ian J. Jesse
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.084
Published: 01 January 2020
... and published a great deal of knowledge on the subject of raising foxes. But even if farmers could raise their animals from pup to pelt, great profits were not guaranteed because they also faced a volatile commodity market. No Longer Wild but Wildstock : Fox Farming in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick IAN J...
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Cultivating Leisure: Tourism, Progressive Agriculture, and Technologies of Landscape at Pinehurst, North Carolina, 1895–1935

Michael Winslow
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 61–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.061
Published: 01 January 2020
... labor, meaning-making, and natural resource use, goes into creating a place for recreation—and how agriculture extends beyond commodity crop production. The growth of golf turf on the poor soil of the Carolina sandhills region relied upon intensive resource use and an approximation of convertible...
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Sowing Diversity: The Horticultural Roots of Truck Farming in Coastal South Carolina

Kelly Kean Sharp
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 362–385.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.362
Published: 01 July 2020
..., the discipline has paid little heed to southern antebellum agricultural efforts beyond the commodity crops of rice and cotton. Following in the stead of the New Agricultural History’s awareness of environmental processes in shaping life and labor, “Sowing Diversity” identifies the root of truck farming...
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Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950

Sterling Evans
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 35–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.35
Published: 01 January 2006
... with twine that farmhands later would gather into shocks to await threshing. The majority of the twine used was made from fiber from agave plants (sisal and henequen) from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The dependency on this Mexican commodity is illustrated by the fact that for the first two decades...
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“Like Ribbons of Green and Gold”: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965

Gabriella M. Petrick
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.269
Published: 01 July 2006
... in distant markets. The case of iceberg lettuce shows that the industrialization of agriculture was largely idiosyncratic, and the level of industrialization possible for any specific crop varied, depending equally on the nature of the commodity and the willingness of consumers to purchase it. The emergence...
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"Fifty–Four Days Work of Two Negroes": Enslaved Labor in Colonial Somerset County, Maryland

J. Elliott Russo
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 466–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.4.466
Published: 01 October 2004
... to the edges of the tobacco economy. Unable to grow tobacco profitably, Somerset’s men and women identified alternative export commodities that were more suited to the resources at hand, including lumber, meat, and ships. In addition, many Somerset residents were active in an expanding coastwide trade...
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Breaking Sod or Breaking Even? Flax on the Northern Great Plains and Prairies, 1889–1930

JOSHUA D. MACFADYEN
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 221–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.221
Published: 01 April 2009
... was possible but costly, and farmers simply replaced flax with the next most lucrative commodity. NOTES 1 Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993), Table 1.9, 32-33; Canada, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Census...
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Nature’s Bread: The Natural Food Debate in Canada, 1940–1949

Brian Payne
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 608–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.4.608
Published: 01 October 2019
.... With the Great Depression came new discussions about the relationship between food health and poverty. Providing healthy food for those most in need became a question of poor relief and social equity. Bread became one of the central food commodities in these discussions because bread carried both material...
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Japanese Market Development Programs under PL 480 in the late 1950s: Focus on Wheat and Rice

Ito Atsushi
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 245–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.2.245
Published: 01 April 2021
... and other US commodities as well as wheat; (2) Judging from Japanese and US government documents, USDA officials did not intend to replace Japanese rice with US wheat; (3) Market development plans for US rice had failed due to the damaging effect on diplomatic relations with Southeast Asia...
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Agricultural Settlement in Victoria’s Last Frontier: The Mallee, 1890–1951

Charles Fahey
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 187–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.187
Published: 01 April 2017
... blocks too small to be viable, and in the 1930s world commodity prices collapsed. From 1938 to 1944 settlers across the Mallee experienced a run of very dry years, and dust storms became a feature of Mallee life. Government intervention resulted in the consolidation of blocks, which enabled settlers...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945

Joshua Frens-String
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10154307
Published: 01 February 2023
... in the early twentieth century. It also traces how the exchange of agricultural commodities and knowledge between Chile and the United States contributed to the emergence of intensive agriculture and what observers would later call the “green revolution.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023...
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