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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 344–346.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Jeffrey T. Manuel [email protected] Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol . By Jennifer Eaglin . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . 280 pp., $45.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780197510681. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
... breeding program, and wheat became the centerpiece of the Green Revolution beginning in the 1960s. This article reveals that the environmental origins of the MAP's wheat program lay in combating a plant disease fungus commonly known as wheat rust, which harmed farmers in both northern Mexico and the US...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 510–511.
Published: 01 August 2023
...J. Dwight Hines [email protected] Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley . Edited by Jon K. Lauck . Sioux Falls, SD : Center for Western Studies , 2022 . 350 pp., $15.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780931170966 . By way of conclusion...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Luke Manget [email protected] American Chestnut: An Environmental History . By Donald Edward Davis . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2021 . 424 pp., $32.95, hardcover, ISBN 9780820360454 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Zhihui Zou [email protected] The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice . By Dvera I. Saxton . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2021 . 252 pp., $38.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780813598611 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Sibanengi Ncube [email protected] Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe . By Elijah Doro . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . 332 pp., $110.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781009098397 . Copyright © 2024...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Andrew Watson [email protected] The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories . Edited by Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 406 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 9781496226471 . Copyright © 2024...
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Published: 01 November 2023
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Daniel Pierce Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina . By Kathryn Newfont . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 400 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4125-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 466–467.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Prakash Kumar The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia . Edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D'Souza . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . 344 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-806970-6 . © the Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 618–619.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Joseph P. Reidy Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape . By Drew A. Swanson . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 320 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4177-4 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 277–279.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Stian Rice [email protected] Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature . By Emmanuel Kreike . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2021 . 538 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691137421. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 546–548.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Sasha Loewen Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism . By Hannah Holleman . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2018 . 256 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780300230208. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 546...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 500–531.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., environmentalists, and consumers. In the heart of the neoliberal decade usually remembered for its lack of activism, we see vital progressive coalitions. The contract reflects the merging of three reform threads—the farmworker justice, environmental, and consumer movements—and reveals an integrated vision...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 270–271.
Published: 01 April 2017
...William Major Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing . By Robert S. Emmett . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2016 . 244 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-205-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 270...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 630–632.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Bert Kreitlow Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico . By Mikael D. Wolfe . Durham : Duke University Press , 2017 . 336 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6374-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 630...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 290–291.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Fred C. Smith This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain . Mikko Saikku . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the YazooMississippi Floodplain. By Mikko...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 260–261.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Harry C. McDean Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Smart Alliance: How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand . J. Gary Taylor and Patricia J. Scharlin . Agricultural History Spring Tucked between the chapters of this volume...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Thomas R. Dunlap Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration . Marcus Hall . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews EarthRepair:A TransatlantiHcistoryofEnvironmentaRl estorationB. y Marcus Hall. Charlottesville: University ofVirginia...
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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...