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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 673–675.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Michael Pasquier Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience . Edited by Cindy Ermus . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2018 . 216 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6710-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 467–468.
Published: 01 October 2006
...David J. Hall Harm’s Way: Disasters in Western Canada . Anthony Rasporich and Max Foran . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews Harm's Way:Disasters in WesternCanada. Edited by Anthony Rasporich and Max Foran.Calgary:University of CalgaryPress,2004. 300 pp...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Bode Morin Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters . By Duncan Maysilles . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 344 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3459-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Robert Suits Abstract This article explores the role of early migrant workers (“harvest hands” or “hoboes”) in the American wheat industry. It argues that the constant threat of drought and other climatic disasters created a state of climate precarity for workers. In the variable climate...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 94–116.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Chinese media. It compares rural and urban experiences of the disaster and examines local perspectives on the efficacy of the flood relief projects organized by the Chinese government. This paper finds that while the wartime Nationalist state did not abandon the inundated area, its state-building efforts...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Geoff Burrows Abstract The Great Depression in Puerto Rico was marked by interconnected infrastructural, environmental, and socioeconomic crises caused by the global economic contraction and two devastating natural disasters, the San Felipe and San Ciprián hurricanes of 1928 and 1932. After 1935...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 506–507.
Published: 01 August 2024
... ferocious, more protracted, manmade disaster. Opportunity knocked for Jim Crow. In this excellent monograph, Caroline Grego elucidates the ascendance of white supremacy in the late-nineteenth-century American South by revealing how the distinctive, volatile characteristics of the low-country environment...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 675–677.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Anna Katharine Mansfield © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Crush: The Triumph of California Wine . By John Briscoe . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2018 . 347 pp., $34.95 , hardback, IBSN 978-1-9438-5949-8. Book Reviews 675 leaving our understanding of disasters...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Disaster) to coal related incidences, the reader feels the presence of coal permeating nearly every aspect of the author's life both material and psychological. Included are both humorous anecdotes and touching accounts of personal tragedy. Most of the book is a whimsical walk down memory lane. The author...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 546–548.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., Hannah Holleman weaves together the insatiable appetite of imperialist societies for conquest and profit with the vulnerability of global farmscapes to exploitative forces. In doing so, she highlights humanity s inability to prevent ecological disaster without a revolutionary change in culture. The Dust...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Nicholas Buchanan The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology . Carroll Pursell . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter horrificmine disasters, and the important rolewomen played insupportingmin ers.The appendices include accounts...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 601–603.
Published: 01 October 2017
... understanding of their relationship with the environment. Additionally, she suggests that the country s response to the event demonstrates the influence of modernity as science replaced more traditional arguments to explain the disaster. Before the waters of the Mississippi overwhelmed the levee system created...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... 32. Boukhobza, “Nomadisme et colonization,” 35; Lehuraux, Le nomadisme et la colonization , 1-4. 33. Additional scholarship on natural disasters in medieval and early modern Anatolia and North Africa includes Halil İnalcık and Donald Quataert, An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 625–626.
Published: 01 October 2015
.... By Richard M. Mizelle Jr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 224 pp., $25.00, paperback, ISBN 979-0-8166-7926-3. Few disasters in American history match the scope and destructive power of the Mississippi River Flood of 1927. Swollen by months of heavy rains, the river broke through more than...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 536–537.
Published: 01 July 2021
... societies. This chapter examines the social and cultural context of discards and the growing problem of discards for homes, municipalities, nations, and global spaces. The Book Reviews 537 Disasters of Chapter Four provide some of the most dramatic examples of envirotech analysis. Hurricane Katrina...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 672–673.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., resemble the general and if not, that the general needs to be rethought. John Hayes Augusta University Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience. Edited by Cindy Ermus. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. 216 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., “Mt. Tambora, Climatic Changes, and China’s Decline in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of World History 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2012): 587-607. On the connections between disasters and insurgencies, see Kang Peizhu, Zaihuang yu wan Qing zhengzhi (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2002), 93-105; Zhang...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Andrew Watson The Greater Plains delivers on its promise in that it “complicates earlier narratives of the plains as a region prone to ecological disaster” (xvii). But environmental declensionism is still an important part of the field, especially if we are talking about the Great Plains...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 694–697.
Published: 01 October 2021
... colonials in the eighteenth-century Caribbean responded more to the region s natural disasters than the heat. Many eighteenth-century constructions were built with hurricanes and earthquakes in mind, exemplified through low building mass with wide foundations, complex plans such as the T-shape...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 609–615.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., leaving them unable to repay their debts. Meanwhile, ranching families in western North Dakota and Montana faced a similar collision of rising costs, falling prices, and natural disasters that destroyed their cattle or hogs. FmHA policies and procedures exacerbated these natural and economic disasters...
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