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Managing the Farm: Bullshit in Theory and Practice
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Shane Hamilton Abstract “Management” is routinely understood by agricultural historians as an exercise in rational expertise, targeted at driving ever more efficient, “businesslike” practices on the farm. However, insights from critical management studies suggest that farm management, as a body...
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“The Exceeding Joy of Burning”— Pastoralists and the Lucifer Match: Burning the Rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century, 1850 to 1890
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of their manage? ment system. The schism between the pastoralists and their critics over the impact of tussock burning began almost from the outset, although criticism of the practice became more strident in the twentieth century. A study of this criticism shows that much of it is merely the repetition of adages...
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Theory and Theorizing in Agricultural History
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 502–519.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., no. 3 (2018): 322 38. 31. An excellent, critical history of the case study method, its globalization, and its critiques is Arun Kumar, From Henley to Harvard at Hyderabad? (Post and Neo-) Colonialism in Management Education in India, Enterprise & Society 20, no. 2 ( June 2019): 366 400. A landmark...
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Thomas's who was trained to manage horses and accompanied him to races, executed a “French exit,” and despite Martha's belief that he would return, he never did. Maddox's study complements current literature that aims to restore agency to enslaved people. Closing the introduction, Maddox notes...
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The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the difficulty of establishing the global significance of local study, but Pietz s book is exemplary in this regard. He makes it clear that the yellow river posed a water problem of global proportions. river management issues in the north china Plain shaped, and were shaped by, a range of global factors...
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The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 October 2011
... of these critical longleaf lands (193). Sutter and Way s introduction gives a brief overview of the southeastern longleaf forest s history. It also explains The Art of Managing Longleaf s origins from an aggressively edited transcript of taped interviews with Neel, later supplemented with additional interviews...
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Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 April 2013
... business. Stoddard moved among ornithology, wildlife biology, and forestry, and Way makes a case for him as America s first practical ecologist. Stoddard pops up in any study of the nexus between ecological science and land management. He was a close friend of Aldo Leopold, who saw Stoddard s work...
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In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 302–303.
Published: 01 April 2015
... chapter. Her history of carnivorism seems indefensibly incomplete without a critical assessment of the evolving relationships between humans and the nonhuman animals whose lives are at stake. Jennifer Jensen Wallach University of North Texas The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management. By Mary...
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The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 567–569.
Published: 01 July 2019
... critique one would expect from a scholar devoted to the examination of the historical, ecological, and critical aspects of rangeland management. Born out of the environmental crisis of the late 1800s, rangeland science (and the public agencies tasked with managing the range) promised to help alleviate...
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Plantation Jamaica 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 January 2008
... extraordinarily high agricultural productivity in the period under study, as compared with other plantation societies, resulted largely from the intensive and surpris 103 AgriculturHalistory Winter inglymodern management practices employed by the average planting at torney, a figurewho was "a colonial creole...
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Roundup from the Ground Up: A Supply–Side Story of the World’s Most Widely Used Herbicide
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
... may not know it, the critical raw material Monsanto uses to make Roundup an effective herbicide is elemental phosphorus, which comes from a processing plant in southeast Idaho that remains an operating Superfund site to this day. In the years ahead, scholars may well demonstrate a clear...
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To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 228–257.
Published: 01 April 2007
... ," in Water Quality Management Under Conditions of Scarcity: Israel as a Case Study , ed. Hillel Shuval (New York: Academic Press, 1980 ), 293 ; Howard M.
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, A History of Israel (New York: Knopf, 1976 ), 519 ; Simcha
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, Water in Strife and Action (Givataim: Masada...
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Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 567–569.
Published: 01 October 2011
... and preservation into a comprehensive forest ecosystem management plan that advocated prescribed burns, a highly controversial recommendation for the time. The third chapter details the 1958 founding of the Tall Timbers Research Station by Stoddard and other foresters for the purpose of studying and preserving...
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Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 January 2017
... perspectives of a Delta that is never easy to define, yet the combination of essays in this volume in aggregate manages to leave the reader with a solid picture of a region full of mystique. Agriculture appears throughout the chapters as either a driver of ecological and environmental changes to the landscape...
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Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 276–278.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... As Lauters puts it, there were two extremes: those who loved farm life and those who loathed it (138). The difficulty of managing the length of the period studied is sometimes apparent, but the author situates media depictions of farm women as much as possible within various and changing historical...
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New Materialism and the History of Agribusiness
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 253–258.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Goodman, the study of agrofood systems looks very different from the perspective of a human body composed largely of bacteria rather than a passive conduit for the sugars and fats of an industrial food regime. 7 Reflective new materialists, much like most historians I know, do not seek universal truths...
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Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 January 2021
... was especially critical as foreign markets collapsed and Indian, African, and other colonial markets grew rapidly after World War I. Years before, however, colonial officials and tea planters had long believed that drinking tea would civilize Indians, reduce their proclivity for labor protests and nationalist...
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Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 418–419.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900 1944. By Emily K. Brock. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. 272 pp., $27.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-87071-809-0. Recent literature on the history of American forests has included a number of valuable regional studies, including...
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Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in Alberta Beef Cattle Industry 1881–1948
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 369–371.
Published: 01 July 2004
... their theft, Slaughter argues, because they believed that Indians did not have possessions. Ronda, unlike the "historians" Slaugh? ter criticizes, tells the story from a similar perspective in "Coboway's Tale," an essay in one of his anthologies. Ronda adds to our understanding of the story the social...
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Forestry in the US South: A History
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 409–410.
Published: 01 July 2016
... spanning from the end of World War II through the turn of the twenty-first century (77). Through a series of case studies, they provide valuable anecdotal evidence of individual companies efforts to adapt their management regimes to the South s myriad landscapes. They likewise highlight the critical role...
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