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...Joan M. Jensen Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors . Frank Smoot . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews government's agricultural and industrial policies from 1940 onward. In es sence,Wright concluded that theMexican...

... solidly formed by historical analysis. James Patterson Independent Scholar The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill. By Jonathan Coppess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 522 pp., $65.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4962-0512-4. The farm bill, as compared...

...Barbara Steinson © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 . By Jenny Barker Devine . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 201 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-149-3 . Agricultural...

...Katherine Jellison Abstract During World War II, the United States needed to raise a sufficient military force while at the same time maintaining a sizeable farm labor force to meet increased wartime production goals. At a time when the word farmer was emphatically gendered male, and many farming...

...Stephanie A. Carpenter "Women Who Work in the Field": The Changing Farm Role of Farm and Nonfarm Women on the STEPHANIE A. CARPENTER American agriculture has seen tremendous change and growth in the twen? tieth century. And, while most visible change is related to technology, pro? duction...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract In the early years of the twentieth century, rural America faced a population crisis as young people increasingly left farms for cities. Progressive reformers responded to this crisis with various suggestions meant to more firmly attach youngsters to their rural roots...

... retained an agrarian foundation, such as on-farm recreation, would solve multiple societal problems, including rural poverty, the disappearance of the small farm, agricultural surplus, lack of outdoor recreational space for urban and suburban Americans, and urban blight. This article explains how and why...

...Wayne Anderson Abstract The 1980s Farm Crisis began receiving national attention in the middle of the decade in large part because of Hollywood films such as Country and the star-studded Farm Aid concert. However, religious leaders and organizations had already started to warn of an impending...

...Wendy Mitchinson And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970 . Monda Halpern . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 731 quickly recovered from about 8,000 in 1919 to a peak of 25,000 by 1921. Unfortunately, the AWIU went...

..., but the Victory Farm Volunteers, a program of the federal US Crop Corps, have been largely overlooked, despite the numbers of urban youth who participated. This study examines the program as it was carried out in the states of the Great Plains, particularly its relationship to 4-H and its impact on farm...

...Hal S. Barron Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed . Jane Adams . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 629 returns to the themes that power systems based upon different types of capi? tal accumulation promote social and environmental interactions...

...Susan M. Hartmann On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II . Stephanie A. Carpenter . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 128 / Agricultural History After discussing the left, Choate turns to the right and farmer opposition to the directive nature...

... of the publishers and editors of farm newspapers lived in cities and were influenced by progressive reformers, farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas. At the same time, farm newspapers provided space for opposing viewpoints by publishing letters to the editor. The coverage of agricultural education...

...Sally McMillen Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South . Lu Ann Jones . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 121 South Side Project, a privately promoted Carey Act project which succeeded magnificently, and the Minidoka project which succeeded...

...Jeff Kolnick Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program . Jean Choate . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 127 professional historians, this work will add to the literature on the subject of western land use...

...Cornelia Butler Flora Native Soil: A History of the Dekalb County Farm Bureau . Eric W. Mogren . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall land and land health. Tracing the shift from the view that nature degener ated if left alone to the belief...

...Suzzane Kelley Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Museum Review Fostering The New Remembrance and Respect: Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum The land of New Mexico, from the depths of crater Jemez Caldera to the heights of the San Mateo Mountains, has tested generations...

...Kimberly Porter Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest . Pamela Riney-Kehrberg . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall author calls the industry's "highly-individualistic" nature, a characteristic shared by both...

...David Vaught Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture . Deborah Fitzgerald . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 640 / Agricultural History Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Deborah Fitzgerald. New Haven, Conn.: Yale...