...Royden Loewen Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada . By Cornelius J. Jaenen . Calgary : University of Calgary Press , 2011 . 354 pp., $41.95 , paperback, 978-1-55238-258-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...

... that there is a larger moral here. Indeed, scientism as practiced and expertise generally lack the technological competence to define an objective course. Repeated dependence on the quest for scientific objectification to resolve public issues stands as nothing more than desperate and naïve pipedreams of what science...

... of theory and as a form of practice, may be grounded in something less savory than epistemological superiority or the ability to improve farming practice. This article explores how the meaning of farm management changed substantially over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from...

... remain in their field of expertise, plant pathologists pivoted to semidwarf wheat and fertilizer use after 1953, a shift that defined the course of the Green Revolution. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 Green Revolution Mexican Agricultural Program...

..., this study finds that variables of class, marital status, rural demographics, and alternative occupations mediated the rural women’s experience of change. Not all women experienced the change as a loss. The question of which women were invested in dairying is critical to understanding the course of change...

... in the American South through exploring the connection between antebellum agronomic organizations and changing visions of agronomic advancement, technologies of information, and economic relationships over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on agronomic experimentation in the urban sphere...

...JENNY BARKER DEVINE Abstract Over the course of twenty-eight years, between 1964 and 1991, members of the Iowa Porkettes, the women’s auxiliary to the Iowa Pork Producer’s Association (IPPA), promoted pork products in order to assert their roles as agricultural producers. For the members...

.... Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC’s use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian...

... “American progress” and portrayed an ordered and secured domestic landscape. And, of course, they promised to control horses, cattle, and sheep. The focus on barbed-wire advertising affords a richly detailed look at beliefs and prejudices of Americans, at least as advertisers saw Americans, in the last...

... despite a number of finely nuanced studies of ecology's origins. But if “applied ecology” once effectively meant agriculture, over the course of the first decades of the twentieth century the relationship between ecology and scientific agriculture grew strained. Agriculturists narrowed their focus...

...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...

...,” as dubbed by historian James C. Cobb, the Mississippi Delta offers an excellent case study for a high-impact, service-learning, credit-earning travel course. 2 This article will discuss the rationale, design, and goals of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional course on the Mississippi Delta...

... and students currently grapple with can be understood through this lens. This lesson can also be modified and adapted in any number of ways for upper-division students and courses. For example, when I covered this subject in an upper-division science and society course at Michigan State University, we...

... are the main learning experiences in my course Rice: Connecting East Asian Societies, 1900–2022. These projects help students to examine, describe, and analyze physical and textual primary sources and use their insights to make evidence-based arguments about the production and consumption of rice. The projects...

... Muir, and Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas about policies concerning the national forests. Muir and Pinchot are known for representing two opposing points of view about use versus preservation of wilderness areas. Pinchot, of course, won that argument because of his policymaking position while...

... as History, big H, and I assumed that studying it meant that I would learn only about things like economic policies, devastating wars, and great politicians. I soon realized, however, that my impressions were wrong. I took a women s history course during my second semester, and it totally ©...

...Jeff Bremer [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 I teach an Iowa history class at Iowa State University. In recent years, this course has been online, but I taught it for several years face-to-face. One of the major readings for the class...

...Sanchia deSouza [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 I n January 2021 , in a Toronto winter, as I was getting ready to teach a course on the history of food, environment, and labor in South Asia, my thoughts strayed often to the borders...

... from the American Society for Environmental History, tells the story of that event. The first half of the book describes the centuries and decades prior to the 1048 course change. The second part is about the northern course era. Zhang details the deeply entangled history of the river, the sediment...