...Richard Bulliet Cow . Hannah Velten . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Summer Cow. By Hannah Veiten.Chicago:UniversityofChicago Press,2007.224 pp19.95,paperback,ISBN 1-86189-326-4. Consideringthecentralrole thatcowshave playedin culturesaroundthe world...

...Oliver Lazarus [email protected] The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World . By Thomas Rath . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . 264 pp., $39.99 , hardcover, ISBN 9781108844482 . Copyright © 2024...

...Anna Thompson Hajdik Abstract This essay examines the introduction of the Borden Company's brand mascot “Elsie the Borden Cow” at the 1939 World's Fair. Through an extensive visual analysis of Borden's fair time publicity stills and advertisements, it argues that the creatively conceived “spokes...

...Joshua Specht [email protected] The Cow: A Natural and Cultural History . By Catrin Rutland . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2021 . 224 pp., $27.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691198705. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022 In 2009 a global...

...Lee Zook Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms . Randy James . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews NOTE 1. Elwyn B. Robinson, "The Themes ofNorthDakota History," inThe Centennial Anthologyof "NorthDakota History,Journalof...

... in the development of organic certification standards. By sharing the stories of the organic dairy farmers at the forefront of the movement, this article documents how organic dairy developed from an “invisible” part of the production process to a niche product of food coops in the 1980s. Refusing to Push the Cows...

...Kendra Smith-Howard Creating Dairyland: How Caring for Cows Saved Our Soils, Created Our Landscape, Brought Prosperity to Our State, and Still Shapes Our Way of Life in Wisconsin . By Edward Janus . Madison : Wisconsin State Historical Society Press , 2011 . 232 pp., $26.95...

... parliamentary demands for the regulation of the milk industry, fueled by fears of milk-borne disease and the nutritional quality of cow's milk. Whereas historians have assumed that dairy farmers were resistant to central oversight, elite and self-labeled progressive companies such as the Aylesbury Dairy Company...

...Mats Morell; Grey Osterud Abstract When milking machines were introduced on Swedish farms during the first half of the twentieth century, milking and taking care of cows had long been women's responsibility, and adult men seldom entered the cowshed. As dairying became a commercial operation...

...Lisa L. Ossian Abstract Iowa experienced two well-known incidents of rural violence in the early 1930s with the "Cow War of Cedar County" during 1931 and the Farmers’ Holiday Movement Strike in northwest Iowa in August 1932. However, the violence in rural Iowa from 1930 to 1933 became far more...

... from scratch, followed plans prepared by technical experts, or bought pre-fabricated units, and used them in confinement operations as well as smaller-scale cow-calf, sow-piglet, and sheep-lamb operations. The tool could simultaneously reflect good business practice, resistance to production...

... world. In his Matter of History , Tim LeCain presents the history of the longhorn cow as an evolutionary history, tracing ruminants' development of a four-chambered stomach to the domestication of cattle eight thousand years ago. LeCain argues that, ultimately, the story of cows' domestication...

... Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 239. Joshua Blu Buhs, "Dead Cows on a Georgia Field: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of Post–World War II American Pesticide Controversies," Environmental History 7 (Jan. 2002): 99–121. 7 A. P...

... originated, and analyzes reactions in that country to the shifts in North America cattle breeding. In Britain and most parts of Europe, beef meat was produced by breeding dairy cows to beef bulls, while in North America beef meat normally came from the breeding of beef cows to beef bulls. That difference...

..., Alberta : Cows and Fish Program , 2003 ), 22 , http://www.cowsandfish.org/riparian/caring.html (accessed Apr. 3, 2012); Cunfer , On the Great Plains , 67 ; Courtney White , Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West ( Washington, DC : Island , 2008 ), 10...

... and context of cattle in human history. As the author acknowledges in her introduction, placing cattle into a greater social context is quite difficult because some topics related to cattle, like Mad Cow disease and grazing Book Reviews / 627 rights, are controversial. The book covers a wide range, from...

... included measuring, counting, and categorizing and culminated with the Plant Protection Law (better known as the Black Goat Law) in 1950, which offered Arab owners replacements for their local goats with sheep or cows and advocated that Jewish owners adopt the house (white) goat over the local (black) one...

...-evident origins. Milk could easily be altered by skimming cream or adding artificial color, but these alterations were rarely proven by milk inspectors because the amount of fat, water, and protein the food contained varied widely by season of year, from one breed to another, and by the diet of cows...

... funds, preventing dairy farmers from replacing elderly cows, as we have seen, and refusing to allow ranchers to purchase livestock in time to fatten them for slaughter during the summer months. County offices ignored FmHA policies that were supposed to prioritize family living expenses. “FmHA's playbook...

... varied widely by season of year, from one breed to another, and by the diet of cows that produced it. Liquid Materialities tracks the long, protracted process through which Britons came to know milk, paying special attention to the role of science and law. By focusing on milk s substance, Atkins aims...