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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...
View articletitled, “Much Suffering Among Mexicans”: Migrant Workers in Idaho and the Utah-Idaho Sugar <span class="search-highlight">Company</span>, 1917–1921
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Jim Norris Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 . Matthew C. Godfrey . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews O'Donovan lays all this out in a compelling narrative that comes...
View articletitled, Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar <span class="search-highlight">Company</span>, 1907–1921
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 361–363.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Mark Moberg Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism . By James W. Martin . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89263-5942-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Megan Raby Abstract From 1926 to 1974, the United Fruit Company operated the Lancetilla Experiment Station near Tela, Honduras. As a laboratory and botanical garden where one of the world's largest living collections of tropical fruits could be found, it stood in apparent contrast to the vast...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 188–216.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Matthew C. Godfrey Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 [Footnotes] 1 Leonard J.
Arrington
’s Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-ldaho Sugar Company, 1891–1966 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966) Fred G.
Taylor
’s A Saga...
View articletitled, The Utah-Idaho Sugar <span class="search-highlight">Company</span>: Political and Legal Troubles in the Aftermath of the First World War
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in The Honey Pond and the Flapjack Tree: The USDA at Two World Fairs, 1933–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. “A Century of Progress,” poster, Goes Lithographing Company, 1933; and cover, American Negro Exposition Official Program and Guidebook (Chicago: Exposition Authority, 1940).
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in Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 3. “United Fruit Company Organization” chart showing the new research department under the management of Hartley Rowe, an industrial engineer by training. “Vice-Presidents of the United Fruit Company,” 132.
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Terry S. Reynolds Abstract Between 1895 and 1915 Cleveland-Cliffs, one of America’s leading iron mining companies, became deeply involved in promoting agricultural development on Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula. Its two-decade-long attempt to identify appropriate plants and farming practices...
View articletitled, “Quite an Experiment”: A Mining <span class="search-highlight">Company’s</span> Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 127–146.
Published: 01 April 2005
.... Sometimes the physicians drove, but in many cases, they flew to the location. In the 1980s these individuals formed a series of companies under the name of "Mid-States whose employees performed diagnostic work ranging from echocardiography to pregnancy sonograms. One company even provided fitness equipment...
View articletitled, Echoing off the Heart of the Heartland: The Mid-States <span class="search-highlight">Companies</span>, Echocardiography, and Rural Medicine
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 566–567.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of depth on any specific topic by smartly weaving disparate strands of thought into a unified history of a complicated, vital, and evolving movement. James W. Feldman University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India Companies (1700 1800). by Chris...
View articletitled, Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India <span class="search-highlight">Companies</span> (1700–1800)
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 April 2002
...: With Special Reference to Early Utah Conditions , Rural Science Series, ed. L. H. Bailey (New York: Macmillan, 1920 ) Wells A.
Hutchins
, Mutual Irrigation Companies in Utah , Bulletin 199 (Logan: Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, 1927 ) George L. Strebel, "Irrigation as a Factor...
View articletitled, Irrigating the Mormon Heartland: The Operation of the Irrigation <span class="search-highlight">Companies</span> in Wasatch Oasis Communities, 1847–1880
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 328–350.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Todd Cleveland Abstract This paper examines how a series of agricultural initiatives forestalled mechanization on the mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) by facilitating the expansion of the company’s African labor force. Unlike other regional mining companies, from its...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 263–288.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Jacob Steere-Williams Abstract This article examines the late nineteenth-century process whereby elite British dairy companies used the tools and the rhetoric of scientific management to gain market hegemony, marginalizing small and often rural dairy farmers. This was in the context of increased...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Daniel Ott Abstract During the 1880s and 1890s the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company created a brand based upon Cyrus H. McCormick's supposed invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831. The company's “prestige of priority” functioned to break the industry price-slashing deadlock of the “reaper...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 34–56.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Juan José Baldrich Abstract This article examines the transition of the Puerto Rican operations of the “Tobacco Trust” from a cigarette manufacturing operation in 1899 to an agribusiness by 1911. The Porto Rican American Tobacco Company (PRATCO) created monopolistic conditions by absorbing the two...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 380–403.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Margaret Weber Abstract Like many other agribusinesses, Pioneer Hi-Bred sought to widen its control over the food and fiber industry after World War II. With the company’s expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, Pioneer’s interactions with rural people showcased a negotiated exchange of information...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Kevin S. Amidon Abstract In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets--first established to support railroad...
View articletitled, The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad–Supported Agricultural Research
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2011
... employer, the Sheidley Cattle Company, grazed thousands of cattle in western Dakota Territory, many of them on Sioux Indian land. Indeed, the company owed a great deal of its success to illegal grazing on the Great Sioux Reservation. Opportunists such as Lemmon supported Indian reservations because...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of research findings and technical information about scientific cultivation methods under Australian conditions. This detail had been assembled during the 1890s and 1900s mainly by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company and the Queensland government Sugar Experiment Stations, which had been established following...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Carrie A. Meyer Abstract Advertisements for internal combustion engines, commonly called gas engines, appeared regularly in farm magazines in the mid-1890s. By the century's turn, one hundred US companies produced stationary or portable gas engines for farmers. Fifteen years later, the number...
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