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Guatemala’s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highland

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DAVID CAREY, JR.
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 283–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.283
Published: 01 July 2009
...-twentieth century was a watershed event for many Mayan farmers in Guatemala. While some Maya hailed synthetic fertilizers’ immediate effectiveness as a relief from famines and migrant labor, others lamented the long-term deterioration of their public health, soil quality, and economic autonomy. Since...
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Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina

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Timothy Johnson
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 476–477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.3.476
Published: 01 July 2015
...Timothy Johnson Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina . By Sheperd W. McKinley . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 242 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4924-3 . © the Agricultural...
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The Peasant Route to Innovation: Fertilizer Improvement in the Smallholding Economy of Eighteenth-Century Flanders, Belgium

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Pieter De Graef
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 488–512.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.4.488
Published: 01 October 2017
... agricultural innovations—especially those that required substantial cash outlays—were kept at arm’s length because of the outcome’s uncertainty, which could harm the survival strategies of smallholding peasants. Tis article elaborates on the spread of two innovative fertilizer improvements—animal urine...
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Feed, Fertilizer, and Agricultural Productivity in the Netherlands, 1880–1930

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Merijn T. Knibbe
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 39–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.39
Published: 01 January 2000
...Merijn T. Knibbe Feed, Fertilizer, in the Netherlands, and Agricultural 1880-1930 Productivity MERUN T. KNIBBE For a long time economic historians have estimated, analyzed, and at? tempted to explain changes in agricultural production and productivity, and they have found an increase in growth...
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Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture

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Frank Uekötter
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 68–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.1.68
Published: 01 January 2014
...Frank Uekötter Abstract This article discusses the role of panaceas as functional equivalents to scientific expertise. Using the example of plant nutrition in Germany, it shows how increasing fertilizer use ran against the best scientific advice in significant ways. Ultimately, the lack...
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Farming with Petroleum: The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry's Malthusian Bargain

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Michael E. Staub
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11207093
Published: 01 August 2024
...Michael E. Staub Abstract This article recovers and analyzes the sophisticated corporate response to environmentalist concerns already in the 1960s about the radical disruption of the nitrogen cycle that governs life on the planet caused by intensified application of chemical fertilizers. In 1971...
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Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley

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Rachel Newcomb
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 290–291.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.290
Published: 01 April 2015
...Rachel Newcomb Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley . By Suzanne E. Joseph . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 246 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4461-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...
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Fertilization Practices in Pacific Northwest Wheat-Producing Areas

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Alexander C. McGregor, James F. Shepherd
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 433–450.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.433
Published: 01 April 2000
...Alexander C. McGregor; James F. Shepherd Fertilization Wheat-Producing Practices in Pacific Areas Northwest ALEXANDER C. McGREGOR JAMES F. SHEPHERD The inland Pacific Northwest's steeply sloped prairies have long been renowned for their exceptional fertility and wheat yields. Yet, the widespread...
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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940

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Stephanie Carpenter
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 700–701.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.3.700
Published: 01 July 2000
...Stephanie Carpenter Book Reviews Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 19001940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 352 pp., $59.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8078-2456-9; $19.95, pa? perback, ISBN 0-8078-4760-7. Rebecca Sharpless' study...
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Fertile Grounds: Knowledge, Ceremony, and the Intensification of Maize

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Patrick Bottiger
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 513–546.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10795855
Published: 01 November 2023
... more grain than any single plant of the eastern complex and thus demonstrated the capacity of humans to harness through ceremony the power of nonhuman forces to maintain the reproductive capacity or fertility of their earthly world. 18 Examining the switch to corn engages a set of methodological...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945

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Joshua Frens-String
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10154307
Published: 01 February 2023
...Joshua Frens-String Abstract This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural...
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Laboratory versus Farm: The Triumph of Laboratory Science in Belgian Agriculture at the End of the Nineteenth Century

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Lyvia Diser
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 31–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.1.31
Published: 01 January 2012
... of renowned chemists such as Wilhelm Henneberg and Louis Grandeau. The mission of these laboratories was to acquaint the local farming community with the new scientific approach to farming, which included the use of chemical fertilizers. The laboratory scientists hoped to achieve this through education...
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Nitrogen Nation: The Legacy of World War I and the Politics of Chemical Agriculture in the United States, 1916–1933

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Timothy Johnson
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.2.209
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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FIGURE 2. “N₂ Is Healthy for Crops and Other Living Things.” Cover of Ag Chem and Commercial Fertilizer 27 (May 1972).

“N₂ Is Healthy for Crops and Other Living Things.” Cover of Ag Chem and Co...

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Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2. “N₂ Is Healthy for Crops and Other Living Things.” Cover of Ag Chem and Commercial Fertilizer 27 (May 1972). More
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Improving Agricultural Practices: Science and the Australian Sugarcane Grower, 1864–1915

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Peter Griggs
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.1.1
Published: 01 January 2004
... of the agricultural practices adopted by the country’s first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage, and paddock design. Various reasons for the use of these "inadequate techniques" are discussed in this essay, with the conclusion being offered that the most important...
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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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Terry S. Reynolds
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.64
Published: 01 January 2006
... and thus to extend the agricultural frontier into this region was ambitious. It included an experimental garden, a greenhouse and nursery, an attempt to produce fertilizer locally, two major experimental/demonstration farms, and a number of other agricultural initiatives not usually associated with mining...
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Vanishing Earth: Soil Erosion in the Palouse, 1930-1945

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Andrew P. Duffin
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 173–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.173
Published: 01 April 2005
...Andrew P. Duffin Abstract This article examines the environment and agricultural activity in the Palouse, a fertile, hilly prairie in the inland Northwest, during the Great Depression and World War II. This area is home to some of the most productive wheatland in the nation, but because of constant...
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Landlords and Tenants in the Wake of Abolition and Ecological Devastation in Brazil’s Middle Paraíba Valley

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JOHN J. CROCITTI
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 143–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.143
Published: 01 April 2009
... Piraífrom other coffee-producing areas that suffered from ecological devastation. By 1900 the land’s loss of fertility precluded further plantation agriculture in Barra do Pir aí, leading to the transition from lucrative coffee cultivation to dairy farming based on meager capital inputs. Compared...
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An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands

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KENNETH SYLVESTER, GEOFF CUNFER
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 352–383.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.352
Published: 01 July 2009
...KENNETH SYLVESTER; GEOFF CUNFER Abstract The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and mechanization steadily narrowed...
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Modernized Farming but Stagnated Production: Swedish Farming in the 1950s Emerging Welfare State

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Carin Martiin
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 559–583.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.4.559
Published: 01 October 2015
..., and an increased use of artificial fertilizers, which were valued for their time-saving potential rather than their yield-increasing effects. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. I am grateful to three anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. An early version of this article...
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