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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 83–114.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... Entomological Research Committee. Report for 1912–13 (London, 1913 ) [Cd. 7050-22], 5 9 F. V.
Theobald
, " Economic Entomology ," in Encyclopaedia Britannica , 10 th ed., vol. 27 [3] (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1902 ), 632 -36 Eleanor A.
Ormerod
, A Lecture...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., who headed the Bureau of Entomology from 1894 to 1927. Like most entomologists of his era, Howard was theoretically interested in pursuing a wide variety of control methods--biological, chemical, and cultural included. In the end, however, he employed several tactics to streamline the government’s...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 309–321.
Published: 01 April 2000
... Leland O.
Howard
, " Injurious Insects and Commerce ," Division of Entomology, USDA, Insect Life, Vol. 7 , 1895 , 332 -38 L. O.
Howard
, " Danger of Importing Insect Pests ," Division of En¬ tomology, USDA, Yearbook , 1897 , 529 -52 3 L. O.
Howard
, A History...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 291–292.
Published: 01 April 2007
... science, as well as science and the state, Castonguay's book is very rewarding. Making use of a number of archival resources hitherto little exploited, Castonguay explores these problems through the history of economic entomology-the science of the control of noxious insects in agriculture and forestry...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 70–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of Agriculture, Agricultural Yearbook for 1887 ( 1888 ): 123 – 42 ; M. W. Stone and R. E. Campbell , “Chloropicrin as a Soil Insecticide for Wireworms,” Journal of Economic Entomology 26 ( Feb. 1933 ): 237 – 43 ; George Abraham , “Policeman's Tear Gas Used for Fumigating the Garden...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 292–294.
Published: 01 April 2007
... Charles Gordon Hewitt was sent to Canada (at that time a British dominion), entrusted with the mission of promulgating a law against noxious insects as well as developing outreach activities. Despite the applied character of his mission, Hewitt developed new entomological cognitive knowledge. In contrast...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Correspondence 1908-1924, General Records E34, Records of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, RG 7, National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. (hereafter NARA II); L. O. Howard, "Notes on the Progress of Economic Entomology," Journal of Economic Entomology 8 (Feb. 1915...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 April 2007
... forest composition. In recent decades, wholesale spraying has stopped as Americans have returned to an acceptance of this particular forest insect as part of ecological variation. At the close of the book, Spears reflects on the rise and fall of economic entomology to combat the gypsy moth...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2011
... history work on the boll weevil, there has been recent work on the intersection of politics, culture, and entomology that has influenced my interpretations. Claire Strom's work on the cattle tick in the American South explicates how the solutions for dealing with insect pests and farmers' local political...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 319–323.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as an environmental scientist, to help regulate agricultural pollutants for farm workers. “I tell you this because I want you to know that when I picked up the first volume of the Journal of Economic Entomology ,” the flagship journal on pest control, “I did so not just as a geographer or a historian in need...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 436–437.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... My goal was to make the whole field accessible to a wider circle of interested scholars by breaking down the opaque generic term agricultural sciences into six subfields soil science, entomology, horticulture, plant pathology, etc. since each had on inspection its own small literature...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 January 2006
... to eradicate fire ants as "the Vietnam of entomology" (360). Such statements express once more the strong feelings that Carson evoked and speak to the ongoing significance of her work. Clearly more his? torical investigation remains to be done into the influence of chemicals on lives and land in America...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 290–291.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., Castonguay's book is very rewarding. Making use of a number of archival resources hitherto little exploited, Castonguay explores these problems through the history of economic entomology-the science of the control of noxious insects in agriculture and forestry-in Canada between 1884 and 1959. Castonguay's main...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the entomology division of the ARS through much of the period thisbook covers, is a case-in-point. During World War II, he led the USDA Orlando laboratory where DDT was developed. He expressed con cern about the agency's relationship with chemical companies. Knipling and others at theARS actively campaigned...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of this exciting new subfield. My goal was to make the whole field accessible to a wider circle of interested scholars by breaking down the opaque generic term agricultural sciences into six subfields soil science, entomology, horticulture, plant pathology, etc. since each had on inspection its own small...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 October 2007
... unconsidered. Daniel either ignores or downplays evidence that there was a debate within theARS over pesticide use in the 1950s. E. J.Knipling, who headed the entomology division of the ARS through much of the period thisbook covers, is a case-in-point. During World War II, he led the USDA Orlando laboratory...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 262–266.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into the sciences for insight, most notably materials science, evolutionary biology, and environmental health. Physics explains the thermodynamics of smelters. Chemistry unravels the mysteries of the copper atom. Entomology provides counsel on the habits and lifeways of the silkworm. It is, in other words, a work...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Californian , July 12 , 1956 , Scrapbook 1949-1960, GSVA N. F. McCalley, "Outline of Work on Vegetables in the Salinas Valley—1957," UC Research 1951-– 1961 Folder, GSVA Paolo
Palladino
, Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885–1985...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2024
... (Hymenoptera: Apidae) .” Journal of the New York Entomological Society 70 , no. 4 , ( 1962 ): 190 – 214 . Knight Alan . The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Kourí Emilio . “ Interpreting the Expropriation of Indian Pueblo...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 354–367.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in nature, see, for example, Linda Nash , “The Agency of Nature or the Nature of Agency?” Environmental History 10 ( Jan. 2005 ): 67 – 69 ; Paul S. Sutter , “Nature's Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal...
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