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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 493–496.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Dan Flores Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . William Cronon . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Twenty Years On: Thoughts on Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England DAN FLORES Changes in the Land...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 707–709.
Published: 01 October 2021
... a di erent view of this period and points to the ways in which cities helped the nation overcome sectionalism and rebuild after the Civil War. It s useful to compare Taking the Land to William Cronon s Nature s Metropolis (1992). Both books are about the connection between city-building and land...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 237–242.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 50 , no. 2 ( Autumn 2019 ): 187 – 212 . Coclanis Peter . “ Urbs in Horto .” Reviews in American History 20 , no. 1 ( March 1992 ): 14 – 20 . Cronon William . Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . New York : Hill and Wang , 1983...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 662–666.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and humble us in the face of larger, environmental forces. They can also call us to action. As William Cronon has argued, “The special task of environmental history is to assert that stories about the past are better . . . if they increase our attention to nature and the place of people within it.” Telling...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 246–247.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Gordon E. Harvey Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America’s First Martyr to Environmentalism . Stuart B. McIver . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 246 / Agricultural History liam Cronon {Nature's Metropolis). Morse is entirely open about...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 253–258.
Published: 01 May 2022
... or attack the logical consistency of a monist ontology, but I can see great value in the earlier concept of “second nature” developed by Alfred Schmidt, Neil Smith, and William Cronon. 13 Although Bennett criticizes the concept of “second nature” for reifying a distinction between human culture...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 182–203.
Published: 01 April 2007
... Department Stores, 1890-1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986 ); Elaine S.
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, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989 ). 5 William
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, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 April 2005
... with the literature in environmental history will recognize that the two overarching themes threaded through this book come from the work of Richard White (in The Organic Machine and in "Are you an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?: Work and Nature") and Wil- 246 / Agricultural History liam Cronon...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 326–337.
Published: 01 April 2002
... , 159 John Mack
Faragher
, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven: Yale University Press), 61 -67 William
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, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991 ), 101 -03 Joann Leach
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, Winters: A Heritage...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-carson-silent-spring. 486 Agricultural History Scholars such as Carolyn Merchant, Alfred Crosby, Samuel Hays, William Cronon, Richard White, and Donald Worster offered the methodological structures and narratives to rethink boundaries, sources, and actors, making environmental history one of the fastest...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 502–519.
Published: 01 July 2019
... between the social and the natural. Indeed, among the most generative of frameworks in our field in recent decades has been the integration, thanks to William Cronon and Neil Smith, of the Hegelian and Marxian concepts of first nature and second nature to help move beyond a simplistic dichotomy...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
... by Cronon, Judd, Merchant, Steinberg, and Whit? ney, and, of course, Thoreau and Marsh, would have strengthened the book. Furthermore, by the end of the volume she is focusing almost entirely on environmental issues, but these final chapters are sometimes removed from her major theme. What, for instance...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 470–471.
Published: 01 August 2022
... hometown, she runs the risk of sounding like a town booster or local critic. At the very least, the history of the Midwest is about two heartlands, the urban and the rural. William Cronon, in Nature's Metropolis (1991), showed one way of studying both by portraying Chicago as the center of a dynamic...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., the history of the Midwest (3). After giving an overview of the origins of corn, Clampitt zooms in on the geographical focus of her book. She explains how corn was an ideal crop for early midwestern farmers, since it produces so prodigiously (29). Strongly influenced by William Cronon s Nature s Metropolis...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 778–779.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and the effects of narratives. Agricultural historians, familiar with stories of Edenic downfall, will find here a helpful encapsulation of that topic, which would pair well with, for instance, William Cronon s classic, A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative (Journal of American History, 1992...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 465–466.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., humanity and the human face become lost. This is not true with Trees in paradise, which should grow to rival William cronon s Nature s Metropolis for connecting the natural and human worlds as inseparably linked. Farmer s thesis is simple: 465 Agricultural History Summer there is nothing natural about...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 464–465.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in paradise, which should grow to rival William cronon s Nature s Metropolis for connecting the natural and human worlds as inseparably linked. Farmer s thesis is simple: 465 ...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2016
... is a work of synthesis, not independent research. agricultural and environmental historians will quickly recognize some of the authors this book has relied on most heavily, including Virginia anderson, William cronon, catherine Mcneur, and the author of this review. For the most part, these writers...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 259–260.
Published: 01 October 2012
... that have received attention from other scholars. Hence the text features a detailed discussion of early Indian horticulture and the introduction of new diseases and animals in the colonial period (with obvious debts to Changes in the Land by Stradling s graduate school mentor, William Cronon...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 606–607.
Published: 01 October 2014
... is grown, despite its primarily Australian focus. sometimes attempts to let wheat talk for itself through the use of terms such as plantiness are not successful in comparison with William Cronon s efforts in Nature s Metropolis or new Zealand naturalist Herbert Guthrie smith s Tutira, a carefully...
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