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... Thabane , “Liphokojoe of Kao: A Study of a Diamond Digger Rebel Group in the Lesotho Highlands,” Journal of Southern African Studies 26 , no. 1 (Mar. 2000 ): 105 – 21 . 3. Jean-Luc Vellut , “Mining in the Belgian Congo,” in History of Central Africa , vol. 2 , eds. David...

...DAVID H. DIAMOND Abstract Before the Revolution, colonial American consumers reconstituted the English apple orchard. Unremarkable random seedling apples and "high" flavored English cider fruits were devalued. Late colonial consumers selected a range of sweeter, more versatile apples for fresh use...

... , “The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology,” in Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond , ed. Edward J. Rielly ( New York : Haworth Press , 2003 ), 151 – 60 ; Charles Fruehling Springwood , Cooperstown to Dyersville: A Geography of Baseball Nostalgia ( Boulder, Colo. : Westview...

... by the Western world to rationalize flexes of extractive imperial power in the Pacific since Cook. Part of this stems from his selected interlocuters (and the absence of others). He pays homage to Jared Diamond s books, particularly Collapse (2005), which has been roundly criticized by anthropologists...

... , “The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia,” 40 – 41 . 9. Bottéro , “The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia,” 38 . 10. See for example Jared Diamond , “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” Discover Magazine , May 1987 , 64 – 66 , http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html...

... about their low developmental ceilings. And it is as fatuous as it is unconscionable to refer to agriculture as “the worst mistake in the history of the human race,” as Jared Diamond, one of the champions of hunter-gatherers, infamously did many years ago. 1 To his credit, Headrick's support...

... quartile, and a whopping 74 percent from the top uS echelon, the top income quartile.13 So, yes, if institutions are going to be ranked high because they only admit academic diamonds or those who have diamonds, then that is a great shame. i happen to think it is more outstanding, and thus deserving of high...

...), Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa s Coal Mining Communities, 1895 1925, A Peculiar People: Iowa s Old Order Amish (written with Elmer Schwieder), Iowa: The Middle Land, and Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains. She was also co-editor of Iowa State University s...

... in conversation with the writings of Jared diamond and Bill Mckibben, who are, respectively, targets of its criticism and praise. despite his aspiration to cover more than ten-thousand-years worth of Mediterranean history, McGregor proceeds at a measured pace, relying heavily on pertinent anecdotes...

... greater stability to their individual farming operations, a predecessor to the Blue Diamond farmers' coop that now dominates the California almond industry. Less familiar in farming literature isVaught's skillful interweaving of social and cultural history with his narrative of agricultural evolution...

... the best property, and make them into baseball diamonds. Making the grounds inviting to the fans and yet favorable to the home team was the dual task these hardworking brothers pursued in theirprofessional life.They began theircareers in thenineteenth century asmarginal employees subject to frequent...

... reports, and participant observation (as a student when Columbia University managed the facility) to construct a history of Biosphere II from conception to itsnear demise. She examines the glass-topped construction like a diamond each of whose many facets reflect something about, among other things...

... article published in Agricultural History. His article, Feeding the Aversion: Agriculture and Mining Technology on Angola s Colonial-Era Diamond Mines, 1917 1975, appeared in the summer 2018 issue of Agricultural History. Cleveland is professor of history at the University of Arkansas. Gilbert C. Fite...

... working within Native studies or settler colonial studies. Braided Waters raises questions about what other stories could be told about places deemed too destitute or diminutive for success (whatever that looks like). What happens when we stop believing what Diamond and others sug- gest about who gets...

..., and Balti more and even at spring training sites inTexas. These two Irishworking-class groundskeepers had to takemarginal lands, as theirparks, grounds, and eventually stadiums were generally built on less than the best property, and make them into baseball diamonds. Making the grounds inviting to the fans...

.... Between 1699 and 1800, two-thirds of the goods exported to Africa were cloth and 40 percent of those came from India, leading to Riello s revision of the triangular trade to a diamond shape (138). Nonetheless, Atlantic markets provided demand that stimulated industrialization between 1750 and 1800...

... overarching argument is also familiar: it echoes that of a range of works such as bestseller Jared Diamond s Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and historian Edmund Russell s War and Nature (2001). Von Hippel s work is intentionally synthetic, but neither its parts nor its synthesis offer novel material or ideas...

...William K. Scarborough Agricultural History Fall media reports, and participant observation (as a student when Columbia University managed the facility) to construct a history of Biosphere II from conception to itsnear demise. She examines the glass-topped construction like a diamond each of whose...

.... 31 Catherine Kleiner, "Nature’s Lovers: The Erotics of Lesbian Land Communities in Oregon, 1974-1984," in Seeing Nature Through Gender, ed. Virginia Scharff (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 252-55. 32 Stephen Diamond, What The Trees Said: Life on a New Age Farm (New York: Delta...

... , The Orchards of Doncaster and Templestowe ( Melbourne : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society , 1985 ); David H. Diamond , “Origins of Pioneer Apple Orchards in the American West: Random Seeding Versus Artisan Horticulture,” Agricultural History 84 (Fall 2010 ): 423 – 50 ; M. Roche...