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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 622–623.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Steven D. Reschly Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America . David Walbert . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 622 / Agricultural History Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 560–562.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Cornelia Butler Flora Native Soil: A History of the Dekalb County Farm Bureau . Eric W. Mogren . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall land and land health. Tracing the shift from the view that nature degener ated if left alone to the belief...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 466–492.
Published: 01 October 2004
...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...
View articletitled, "Fifty–Four Days Work of Two Negroes": Enslaved Labor in Colonial Somerset <span class="search-highlight">County</span>, Maryland
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 385–386.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Royden Loewen Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America . David J. Walbert . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 385 Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America. By David J...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 409–410.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., for example, ensures that "the child's real education takes place more outside the school than in it,"while in the larger and wealthier Holmes County, Ohio, Amish community, pri vate schools "do not aim to be different from the public schools so much as they aim to provide a basic education similar...
View articletitled, African American Politics in Rural America: Theory, Practice, and Case Studies from Florence <span class="search-highlight">County</span>, South Carolina
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ryan Poe Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902–1954 . By Sherry Laymon . Little Rock : Butler Center of Books , 2009 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-9800897-7-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...
View articletitled, Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay <span class="search-highlight">County</span>, Arkansas: 1902–1954
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 68–90.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Clifford M. Kuhn Abstract During the early 1940s Greene County, Georgia's, Unified Farm Program, a model undertaking coordinating the efforts of federal, state, and local agencies, attracted national attention, largely through the work of sociologist Arthur Raper. At the core of the program...
View articletitled, “It was a Long Way from Perfect, but it was Working”: The Canning and Home Production Initiatives in Greene <span class="search-highlight">County</span>, Georgia, 1940–1942
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
... project, which assumed a gendered division of labor, and the real needs of the farm women they served. Through the Comanche County REA Women's Club, the article explores how REA administrators imagined that women would participate in its cooperative-led electrification efforts, women's engagement...
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View articletitled, “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche <span class="search-highlight">County</span> REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 257–259.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Kathleen Smith Kutolowski Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn . Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 257 French Revolution on the local level, the process of economic...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Angela Firkus Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs . Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring ofAmericanagricultureT.hese analysesare not overlycomplex- readers withan understandinogf basic economicsand...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 July 2017
...James P. Bowen Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400–1640 . By A. T. Brown . Suffolk : The Boydell Press , 2015 . 272 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-78327-075-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 435...
View articletitled, Rural Society and Economic Change in <span class="search-highlight">County</span> Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400–1640
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 439–461.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...
View articletitled, The Old World in the New South: Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Agricultural History of Cullman <span class="search-highlight">County</span>, Alabama
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in False Gospels of Efficiency: Contested Knowledge, Determined Experts, and Unfaithful Lands in Rural Utah
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2022
figure 1. Map of Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1 on the west-side lands of Cache Valley, Utah. Reprinted from bulletin 193, Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1 (Logan: Utah State Agricultural College, 1925).
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in Soils as Archives: Cultivating an Integrative Pedagogy for Soil History and Place-Based Education in Appalachia
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2023
figure 1. Warning of contaminated soil. Blue Ridge Parkway, Watauga County, North Carolina. Author's photo, 2017.
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in “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 3. Homeownership and farm residency, Comanche County REA Women's Club. Original visualization using data from Ancestry.com , 1940 United States Federal Census (database online), Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012.
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in “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4. Age cohorts of Comanche County Appliance School members. Original visualization using data from Ancestry.com , 1940 United States Federal Census (database online), Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012.
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in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 1. Terrace maintenance on October 29, 1939, in Polk County, Georgia. Original caption: “Farm hands building up low place in terrace with slip scrape on farm of W. N. Zuker, cooperator in Coosa River Soil Conservation District.” Photograph by B. King. Source: Douglas Helms Collection
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in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 6. Westby (Vernon County), Wisconsin. Contour strip cropping showing corn, grain, alfalfa, grain, alfalfa (1937). Photograph by George V. Gideon. Source: Douglas Helms Collection, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.
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Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 5. John Vachon, Tobacco Beds. Halifax County, Virginia (March 1941). Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017812219/ .
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 556–557.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Brady Banta Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties . Arthur F. Raper . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties. By Arthur F. Raper. Columbia: Universityof South Carolina Press, 2005. 427 pp...
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