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Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 137–138.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Bonnie Lynn-Sherow Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place . By Leah S. Glaser . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 . 318 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-2219-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...
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Shedding New Light on Rural Electrification: The Neglected Story of Successful Efforts to Power Up Farms in the 1920s and 1930s
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 296–327.
Published: 01 July 2018
... recession—led to an almost quadrupling of electrified farms in the years between 1923 and 1931. The article concludes with an explanation for the persistence of the conventional historiography of rural electrification. It suggests that scholars may have ignored the context of the pre–Depression era, when...
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in “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 5. Article on school electrification from Rural Electrification News , 1937. “Electrified Schools an REA By Product,” Rural Electrification News , April 1937, HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073700604.
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"How Not to Electrocute the Farmer": Assessing Attitudes Towards Electrification on American Farms, 1920–1940
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 515–529.
Published: 01 April 2000
... electricity to encourage the farm fam? ily to modernize as a social good; CREA studied the profitability of electrified farms for the power industry as well as for farmers.6 The power and light companies believed that profitability was the only selling point that would appeal to farmers. For example...
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“Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 5. Article on school electrification from Rural Electrification News , 1937. “Electrified Schools an REA By Product,” Rural Electrification News , April 1937, HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073700604. ...
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Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 February 2024
... as premodern and preindustrial, and, perhaps most importantly, lower profit margins as compared to urban America. In chapter 4, Hirsh explores how the prospect of an electrified rural America sparked imaginations; in chapter 5, he illustrates how some impatient farmers pursued electricity independently...
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Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902–1954
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., Pfeiffer s role in the development of northeast Arkansas is unquestionable, and Laymon s study serves as a solid contribution to the largely unwritten history of that region. Ryan Poe University of Arkansas Fayetteville Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place. By Leah S...
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An Invitation to Dance
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 231–236.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... 2 P ondering the relevance of New Materialism for agricultural history has been a bit like returning to a familiar childhood home only to find it newly remodeled. Is New Materialism simply wall-papering over existing grooves and contours of agricultural histories? Does it rewire and electrify...
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The “Lost Region” No More: Making the Case for a Revival of Midwestern Regional History
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 744–750.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to be electrifying work. The volume makes clear that a primary task for historians of the Midwest is untangling the emergence-as-a-region narrative. For scholars like Seaton and Pichaske, the Midwest became recognizable in the late nineteenth century, when white people, entranced by the potential of a promised land...
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Modernized Farming but Stagnated Production: Swedish Farming in the 1950s Emerging Welfare State
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 559–583.
Published: 01 October 2015
... Feb. 26, 2015); Official Statistics of Sweden , Statistical Yearbook of Agriculture 1970 ( Stockholm : National Central Bureau of Sweden , 1970 ), Table 2, 46 – 47 . 14. Martiin , “Rural Electrification in Sweden: A Comparison,” in Electrifying the Countryside: The Electrification...
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A “Bovine Glamour Girl”: Borden Milk, Elsie the Cow, and the Convergence of Technology, Animals, and Gender at the 1939 New York World's Fair
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 470–490.
Published: 01 October 2014
...-moving carousel. Through the use of a revolving, electrified platform connected to mechanical milking machines, vacuum tubes transported the milk directly to waiting bulk tanks. The machine not only eliminated the need for hand milking, but also substantially sped up the entire process. Two hundred fifty...
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Barbed and Dangerous: Constructing the Meaning of Barbed Wire in Late Nineteenth-Century America
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 566–590.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., the agricultural tool, began to be used in warfare as Twain predicted, it took on new levels of meaning. Late in A Connecticut Yankee, Hank s civilizing endeavors are 586 2014 Barbed and Dangerous threatened, and he turns to electrified wire (Twain originally intended this to be electrified barbed wire). The scene...
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On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 538–565.
Published: 01 October 2014
... , Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology ( Cambridge : MIT Press , 1990 ); Audra J. Wolfe , “‘How Not to Electrocute the Farmer’: Assessing Attitudes Towards Electrification on American Farms, 1920– 1940,” Agricultural History 74 ( Spring 2000 ): 515 – 29 ; Noé Lopez...
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The Coal-Oil Lamp
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 190–209.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and difficult-to-research topic in Canada, both because it fell within provincial jurisdiction and because of the huge variations between provinces. Its history lies well beyond the scope of this paper; for an overview, see Dorothea Giucciardo , “Wired! How Canada Became Electrified; or The Powered...
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All Aboard for Modernity: The Better Farming Train
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 April 2017
... increased sales of phosphatic manures in districts traversed by the train. Harold Clapp, the Train s lifeforce and tireless railway bureaucrat, who not only literally electrified the Melbourne suburban lines in the 1920s but . . . electrified the whole State with his original ideas and high pressure...
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The Benefits and Costs of the Columbia Basin Project: Earlier Perspectives and Changing Perceptions
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 463–480.
Published: 01 April 2002
.... The process of switching to electricity as a stationary source of power from steam in urban industries, begun during the late nineteenth century, was still underway. Rural America had yet to be electrified. In agriculture, the internal combustion engine was replacing steam as a stationary source of power...
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“The Single Most Important Factor”: Fossil Fuel Energy, Groundwater, and Irrigation on the High Plains, 1955–1985
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 629–663.
Published: 01 October 2020
...: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2016); David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990); James C. Williams, Energy and the Making of Modern California (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press...
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“No One Was on Their Own”: Sociability among Rural African American Women in Middle Georgia during the Interwar Years
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1938, for the new AAA strengthened the role of agents. In 1939, the Rural Electrification Administration began to electrify the farms, one in ten of which had been without electricity until then. However, Depression-era reforms such as the Farm Security Administration s loan...
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“Like Ribbons of Green and Gold”: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Was Younger," Salinas Californian, Sept. 20, 1947,36A. 13. Church,"When Lettuce IndustryWasYounger,"36A. 14. According to historian James C. Williams, by the time Salinas Valley growers were starting large-scale lettuce production, PG & E was already electrifying California farms to better manage their load...
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“Quite an Experiment”: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., but regional iron mines electrified and made steadily more use of labor-saving equipment and, therefore, began to re? duce their workforce. The number of men annually employed in Michigan iron mines declined from an average of over sixteen thousand in the 1910s to just over eleven thousand by the late 1920s...
