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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 391–419.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Donald J. Pisani Abstract "Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century" looks at four phases in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation. The first phase lasted from the adoption of the Reclamation Act of 1902 into the 1930s. In those years, the bureau attempted to create...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 672–673.
Published: 01 October 2020
...John Hayes Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks . By J. Blake Perkins . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2017 . 296 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-08289-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 672 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Jim Norris Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 . Matthew C. Godfrey . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews O'Donovan lays all this out in a compelling narrative that comes...
View articletitled, Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the <span class="search-highlight">Federal</span> Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907–1921
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 621–622.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Drew Swanson When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont . By Evan P. Bennett . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 162 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-6014-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 402–404.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Lincoln Bramwell Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife . By James R. Skillen . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2015 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2127-9 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Summer...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 512–540.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 repudiated the creed of laissez-faire by declaring that government had a responsibility to assist ordinary citizens economically. Farmers had made affordable credit a political issue well before the Panic of 1907 thrust banking reform...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 272–292.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Wayne A. Grove Cotton on the Federal Road to Economic Development: Technology and Labor Policies Following World War I WAYNE A. GROVE When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, most cotton farmers had not yet come out of the Great Depression. To meet military and civilian de? mand...
View articletitled, Cotton on the <span class="search-highlight">Federal</span> Road to Economic Development: Technology and Labor Policies Following World War II
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 276–278.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Sarah T. Phillips Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia . By Sara M. Gregg . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2010 . 304 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-14219-8 . © the Agricultural History Society...
View articletitled, Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a <span class="search-highlight">Federal</span> Landscape in Appalachia
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 540–541.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Leah Wilds The Future of Indian and Federal Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Centennial . Edited by Barbara Cosens and Judith V. Royster . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012 . 386 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5122-7 . © the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 18–51.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., served as a crucible for federal soil conservation. It emerged as these experts built the case that soil erosion could and should be controlled through state action. From the 1910s to the early 1930s, federal agencies and technicians developed reliable, practical erosion-control technologies...
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View articletitled, “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of <span class="search-highlight">Federal</span> Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 269–270.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Diane Menghetti Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms in the Age of Federation, 1880s–1920s . Kathryn M. Hunter . 2007 Book Reviews introduction by agricultural historian David Vaught. He compresses into six pages...
View articletitled, Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms in the Age of <span class="search-highlight">Federation</span>, 1880s–1920s
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 638–639.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Catharine Anne Wilson Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 . Margaret C. Kechnie . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 638 / Agricultural History Ecology of the Red River in 1806" looks at the explorer Peter Custis's contributions...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 381–392.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Kimberly K. Porter Embracing the Pluralist Perspective: The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and the McNary-Haugen Movement KIMBERLY K. PORTER The question before the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) in the winter of 1923-1924 was one George N. Peek, president of the Moline Plow Com? pany, posed...
View articletitled, Embracing the Pluralist Perspective: The Iowa Farm Bureau <span class="search-highlight">Federation</span> and the McNary-Haugen Movement
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Cherisse Jones-Branch Abstract Established in Chicago in 1922, the National Federation of Colored Farmers counteracted Black farmers’ marginalization in such national agrarian organizations as the American Farm Bureau Federation. It further leveraged its newspaper, the Modern Farmer , to recruit...
View articletitled, “To Scratch and Crow under Our Own Vine and Fig Tree”: The National <span class="search-highlight">Federation</span> of Colored Farmers, the Modern Farmer , and the Farm Bureau, 1929–1949
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 284–285.
Published: 01 May 2024
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 314–367.
Published: 01 July 2013
... from the constraints of the southern states. The legislation—the Morrill Land Grant Act, establishing federally supported higher education; the Homestead Act, allowing citizens to claim federal land in the American West; and the Pacific Railway Act, allotting federal land to private companies...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 193–219.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Carmen V. Harris Abstract This article is an institutional history of the development of race policy within the federal Cooperative Extension Service. It demonstrates that the popular belief in African-American inferiority and pragmatic political compromises aimed at creating a bureaucracy serving...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 356–378.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Douglas Sheflin Abstract This article highlights Colorado Cooperative Extension Service (CCES) employee A. J. Hamman to demonstrate how Extension employees began acting as intermediaries between farmers and the federal government in the face of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. The dual crises...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Timothy Johnson Abstract In the years before World War I, America's federal government played a very limited role in advanced fertilizer research. This changed after 1916 when lawmakers included a provision in the National Defense Act that funded a swords-to-plowshares project to manufacture...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 258–292.
Published: 01 April 2003
... for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmers had to negotiate racism in the Jim Crow South. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the state branch of the USDA’s Extension...
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