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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Susan Scott Parrish The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840 . By Richard W. Judd . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 330 pp., $25.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-72984-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...
View articletitled, The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> in America, 1740–1840
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 493–519.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...
View articletitled, The Wichita Valley Irrigation Project: Joseph Kemp, Boosterism, and <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> in Northwest Texas, 1886–1939
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Laura R. Kolar Abstract In May 1962 leaders from a variety of federal agencies and independent organizations gathered to “exchange ideas about the future course of American conservation policy.” Central to the agenda discussed were certain Kennedy administration agricultural conservation programs...
View articletitled, “Selling” the Farm: New Frontier <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> and the USDA Farm Recreation Policies of the 1960s
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Lisa L. Ossian Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cooks, and Conservation during World War I . By Rae Katherine Eighmey . St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2010 . 272 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-718-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 265–266.
Published: 01 October 2012
...R. Douglas Hurt My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver . By Mark D. Hersey . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 306 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3870-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...
View articletitled, My Work Is That of <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span>: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 560–562.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Shawn van Ausdal Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders . By Liza Grandia . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2012 . 304 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-295-99166-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...
View articletitled, Enclosed: <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span>, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 333–357.
Published: 01 July 2007
... cases, such as the narrowing of belt width, public pressure improved long-term prospects. Public unwillingness to engage in drawn-out and uncertain solutions and a bureaucratic refusal to open up the planning process consistently undermined the overall success of the project. Conservation planning...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Armando C. Alonzo Abstract Conservation of natural resources in South Texas is basically a modern development that parallels the evolution of the Soil Conservation Service and other federal agricultural agencies. Since the World War II era, Hispanic producers have played an important role...
View articletitled, Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> Movement in South Texas, 1940s to Present
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 416–417.
Published: 01 July 2008
...David J. Lewis Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe . R. J. Johnston and S. K. Swallow . Agricultural History Summer Most book appendices have little value, but not those...
View articletitled, Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> at the Rural–Urban Fringe
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Patricia Bernard Ezzell This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural American, and the New Deal . Sarah T. Phillips . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter Development Center and theNebraska Farmers' Market Association were instituted to offer...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 129–130.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Carrie Johns Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture . Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgarner . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews Arrow, Oklahoma, to the rich collections of theWisconsin Historical Society...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 466–468.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Aaron Shapiro Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot . By Char Miller . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2013 . 232 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8229-6267-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Sarah T. Phillips Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America . By Ian Tyrrell . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-19776-0. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book...
View articletitled, Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> in Theodore Roosevelt's America
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Joshua M. Nygren The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection . By Dorceta E. Taylor . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . 496 pp, $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6198-5 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...
View articletitled, The Rise of the American <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Zach Smith Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon . By E. Elena Songster . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1993-9367-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 635 Miles argues...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 302–303.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Chitja Twala Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho . Kate B. Showers . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho. By Kate B. Showers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 154–171.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Donald J. Pisani Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Samuel P.
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, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959 ), 100 . 2 Donald J.
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 261–262.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Nora Haenn Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico . By Christopher R. Boyer . Durham : Duke University Press , 2015 . 337 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5832-9. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews Policies...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 289–307.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Douglas Helms; Douglas J. Lawrence; Patricia J. Lawrence; Peter F. Smith Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 49 Stat. 163, 27 April 1935. 3 Douglas
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, "The Civilian Conservation Corps: Demonstrating the Value of Soil Conserva¬ tion...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 18–51.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Joshua Nygren Abstract This article examines the origins, contours, and consequences of a bitter bureaucratic rivalry within the US Department of Agriculture on the eve of New Deal soil conservation programs. The conflict, which pitted agricultural engineers against soil scientists and agronomists...
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View articletitled, “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil <span class="search-highlight">Conservation</span> before the Dust Bowl
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