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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 407–439.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Barbara Hahn; Tiago Saraiva; Paul W. Rhode; Peter Coclanis; Claire Strom Abstract Drawn from a plenary discussion at the 2013 Agricultural History Society's annual meeting in Banff, five scholars examine the relationships of specific crops to their surrounding cultures. The question “does crop...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 297–321.
Published: 01 July 2011
... possibilities of ecology, see, H. L. Shantz , “Natural Vegetation as an Indicator of the Capabilities of Land for Crop Production in the Great Plains Area,” Bulletin No. 201 ( Washington, DC : USDA, Bureau of Plant Industry , 1911 ); W. G. Waterman , “Plant Ecology and Its Relation to Agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Lawrence H. Kessler From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai'i's Premier Crop . By C. Allan Jones and Robert V. Osgood . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2015 . 288 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-4000-6. © 2016...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of the product by shares between landlord and tenant has been worked out by custom and law for cotton." Indeed, there was a credit system in place that facilitated cotton production, a system that dated back to Reconstruction. Lamenting that "no generally accepted system of share cropping has been worked out...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 292–294.
Published: 01 April 2007
...G. N. Uzoigwe Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000 . James C. McCann . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring edge transfer occurred in the reverse direction, with applied research triggering fundamental research...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Robert J. Gough Farmers’ Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World . Stephen B. Brush . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturalHistory Winter debtpeonage.TurpentineworkersweremostlyAfricanAmericanor newly arrivedimmigrantisn,dividualws hono...
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 5. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fact overlooked by railroad leaders, who justified high freight rates by saying that growers' promises of increased production “did not materialize.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 1. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant collectors when obtaining samples of sweet potato varieties in the field, as set out by an international expert meeting in 1980. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant breeders and other researchers when evaluating sweet potato plants, especially those associated with gene-banked samples. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 January 2010
... ’correct’ view. "The wicked problem construct is applied to four core ideas in the history of agricultural development—small farms, cash crops, agrarian ideals, and international development—to demonstrate the potential for using this concept to approach complex problems of historical interpretation...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 212–232.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and animals as well as self–sown cereal crops. These practices were widespread and contributed significantly to the operation of the farm and the broader agricultural economy. The ubiquity and importance of these practices challenge conventional understandings of the modernity of Australian agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 460–461.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Miriam Pawel They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California . By Don Mitchell . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 576 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4176-7 . © the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Andrea Gaynor Abstract This paper examines self-sown crops as agents in the agricultural development of Australia’s southern mallee lands from the 1890s to the 1940s. Self-sown crops suggested ways to farm and provided the enticement of an occasional windfall. They assisted with expansion...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Lisa L. Ossian Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cooks, and Conservation during World War I . By Rae Katherine Eighmey . St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2010 . 272 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-718-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
...: Their Utilization as Humus ( London : Oxford University Press , 1931 ); Louise E. Howard , Sir Albert Howard in India ( London : Faber & Faber , 1953 ), 196 – 221 . 36. Y. L. Nene , “Potential of Some Methods Described in Vrikshayurvedas in Crop Yield Increase and Disease Management...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 262–264.
Published: 01 April 2001
...David Igler Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920 . David Vaught . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 262 / Agricultural History were divided among themselves. Well-versed in the theoretical literature, the author evaluates various...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Megan Birk The Crops Look Good: News from a Midwestern Family Farm . By Sara Deluca . St. Paul : Minneapolis Historical Society Press , 2015 . 240 pp., $17.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-976-2. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring Colpitts...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Francis K. Danquah Abstract Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia placed enormous stocks of the region’s industrial crops under Japanese control. English language Japanese newspaper reports from the Philippines suggest that the invaders grossly under-utilized this vast storehouse of agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 442–444.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Diana Córdoba Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina . By Pablo Lapegna . London : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-1902-1514-9 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017...
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in The Honey Pond and the Flapjack Tree: The USDA at Two World Fairs, 1933–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 7. Charles White's award-winning There Were No Crops This Year , cover, Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro , 1940, Chicago Public Library.
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