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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Lisa Cox © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine . Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the soil had been depleted, the old field was abandoned for as long as twenty years. Environmental factors such as poor soils, rugged topography, and livestock diseases accounted for the persistence of this practice, more so than slavery or the availability of western lands. Shifting cultivation slowly...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Katherine Blouin The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt . By Jennifer L. Derr . Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2019 . 264 pp., $26.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0965-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 156 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 481–482.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Adam Spencer A Manufactured Plague: The History of Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain . Abigail Woods . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 481 surprisesthat come in the pursuitof truth,in choosing and doing historical research,and in relatingacademiclife...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 393–394.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Monique Skidmore Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma . Judith L. Richell . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Book Reviews Asia Disease andDemography inColonial Burma.By JudithL. Richell. Sin gapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2006. 352 pp., $32.00...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 385–396.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Naomi R. Lamoreaux; Peter A. Coclanis Roundtable Review Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease Control (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Peter A. Coclanis Naomi R. Lamoreaux Arresting...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 776–778.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Michael S. Kideckel Diet and the Disease of Civilization . By Adrienne Rose Bitar . Newark : Rutgers University Press , 2018 . 244 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-08135-8964-0. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 776 Agricultural History trate how decisions aimed...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Lisa Cox Addressing Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control . By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 703 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-72877-6. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 230–246.
Published: 01 April 2016
... attaining knowledge of livestock disease ecology in the region was rather conducive to British expertise, livestock marketing proved otherwise. Farmers' practices may have, at times, informed colonial agricultural practice in Africa, but this repositioning of authority did not extend to matters of local...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Elena Conis The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth . By Frank A. von Hippel . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 368 pp., $29.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2266-9724-6. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Oliver Lazarus But in stressing the everyday resistance and mechanics as the campaign played out on the ground, Rath's history makes for one of the most compelling and important accounts of a modern animal disease campaign. Historians of twentieth-century agriculture, animals, Mexico...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 78–100.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Katrina Ford Abstract In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, biosecurity measures were implemented by many governments to protect agricultural industries from disease. These measures were informed by developments in the understanding of disease, as the science of bacteriology began...
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in Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2. Number of Diseased Banana Plants Identified Per Year, 1912–29. Data taken from H. H. Cousins, “Report of the Department of Science and Agriculture for the Year Ending December 31, 1929,” Jamaica Gazette , June 12, 1930, CO 141/93, British National Archives.
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Figure 2. Number of Diseased Banana Plants Identified Per Year, 1912–29. Data taken from H. H. Cousins, “Report of the Department of Science and Agriculture for the Year Ending December 31, 1929,” Jamaica Gazette , June 12, 1930, CO 141/93, British National Archives. ...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
... acceptance among colonial authorities in the Gold Coast was far from hegemonic. There were important dissenting colonial voices, particularly among agriculturalists, who argued that declining cocoa yields were due to plant diseases, most notably cocoa swollen shoot disease. It was based on the latter’s non...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2009
... appeared on new breaking because it could be planted later and transported further without upsetting the balance of other activities and without farmers learning many new techniques. Scientists discovered that diseased soil drove flax off old land, not soil exhaustion. Circumventing the disease...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
... services, these conventions attempted to prevent the introduction of plant diseases and pests into national territories from which they were previously absent. Second, by standardizing these practices—especially through the design of a unique certificate of inspection—the conventions attempted to eliminate...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 659–689.
Published: 01 October 2021
... helped shape racialized strategies of exclusion, justifying Indigenous dispossession and new property regimes while also posing material threats to colonizers. Nineteenth-century government-led commodification of waste and regulation of livestock and their owners mobilized dirty pigs and fears of disease...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2020
... from the animal’s fur had any chance of success. Farmers encountered difficulties in breeding, disease and parasites, and feeding. To help overcome these obstacles, farmers turned to modern scientific methods aided by the establishment of an experimental farm on Prince Edward Island. The farm produced...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 311–340.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in which it operated, and these ultimately contributed to the agency’s decision to abandon the project. Left in the PFRA’s wake was a changed landscape defined in part by exacerbated risk of endemic disease. By examining PFRA efforts in northern Ghana, I demonstrate how a broad analytical approach—one...
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