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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 484–486.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Tiffany Ruby Patterson Howard W. Odum’s Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies . Lynn Moss Sanders . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 484 / AgriculturaHl istory West.That corporate ranchingwas dependent on financialties...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 380–382.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Jeannie M. Whayne Hill Folk: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image . Brooks Blevins . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 380 / Agricultural History For historians, this book is valuable for its descriptions of daily life and work in the region. In case studies...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 606–607.
Published: 01 October 2015
...John Hayes Agricultural History Fall was seen through to fulfillment by a remarkable collective effort. Matthew Mitchelson Kennesaw State University Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South. By Fred C. Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Clare V. J. Griffiths Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain . Edited by Matthew Jefferies and Mike Tyldesley . Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2011 . 202 pp., $125.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4094-1204-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 522–524.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Victor W. Geraci Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890–1920 . Michael Hoberman . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 522 / Agricultural History Hess. In 1893, the most successful, Sears, Roebuck and Company, entered...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 276–277.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Patrick G. Williams Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914 . Kyle G. Wilkison . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring Westhas givenus a valuableadditionto the historiographoyf the South CarolinaUpcountry. EldredE...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 837–838.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Melissa Walker Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 . Kay K. Moss . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 837 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. By Kay K. Moss. Columbia: Univer? sity of South Carolina Press, 1999. 259 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-157003-289-0. Public...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 340–351.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., The Presence of the Past , 177 -87, esp. 186 -87 Narrative Folk Themes in Oral Histories of Farming MELISSA WALKER "My grandmother could use everything about a hog except his squeal," said Wilma Williamson, recalling her childhood on a farm in Depression-era East Tennessee. "She made sausage and seasoned...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 310–311.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Robin C. Henry Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America . By Colin R. Johnson . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2013 . 264 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4399-0998-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Spring tler...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Monica R. Gisolfi 2008 BookReviews ganic farming, and sustainability movements have their codes of acceptable conduct, sharing some practices and differing strongly in others. Douglas Helms Natural Resources Conservation Service Plain Folk's Fight:The CivilWar and ReconstructioninPineyWoods...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 247–248.
Published: 01 April 2016
... will be informed and insightful. Jonathan Bell Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Retired Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table. By Massimo Montanari. new york: Columbia university Press, 2015. 280 pp., $35.00, hardback, isBn 9780-231-16786-4. Massimo Montanari provides us with delectable vignettes spanning...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 311–337.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Anthony P. Cavender; Donald B. Ball Abstract Vernacular human medicine, otherwise known as folk or popular medicine, has received considerable attention from scholars in the United States, but little research has been done on how lay people dealt with livestock ailments prior...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2011
...James C. Giesen Abstract As scholars and singers have pointed out in monographs and folk songs, the cotton boll weevil was a devastating force on southern farming and rural life. No symbol is more indicative of this destruction than Enterprise, Alabama’s boll weevil monument. This essay examines...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 July 2006
... widespread, insidious, and personal than these two nationally covered mob incidents. The most extensive violence during the early Depression years involved hired hands and family members attacking and killing each other on scattered farmsteads, bandits robbing vulnerable country folk for their hidden money...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
... promoting space age, push-button imagery and then the notion of the “farmer in the business suit, “ before turning away from images of actual farm folk toward increasingly hyper-masculine paid models. This shift also corresponded with challenges to traditional masculinity, including the Cold War, the Farm...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 175–206.
Published: 01 April 2014
... subsistence-oriented mountain folk, participated in agricultural trends and a network of market connections common to the South and the nation in the late nineteenth century. Tobacco culture bound them to the capital resources, marketing operations, and consumer goods of urban centers, even as the profits...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... This, as any student of mountain culture knows, is a big task. From the portrayals of Appalachian folk in popular culture to the economics of re? gional development and its impact on the people there is much that can mislead the casual observer. The history and culture of Appalachia have, how? ever, been...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 April 2006
... the legal stuff. It's a bit safer" (202). Rehder concludes by musing on the irreplaceable nature of folk culture and by promoting its preservation, but shies away from the economic and so? cial problems that face the region and its folk culture. He refers repeatedly to the "splendid isolation...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
.... Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 Mandel Sherman and Thomas R. Henry, Hollow Folk (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1933 ), 41 ^4 Miriam Sizer, Survey of Mountain Communities, 1932, Box 442, Entry 7, RG 79, NARA, College Park, Md 2 Sherman and Henry...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 379–380.
Published: 01 July 2004
... realized that the people of the South Fork region "had preserved a rich body of regional lore and custom" and were "cultural resources in their own right" (3). Therefore, the Park Service authorized a folk life project for the Big South Fork. Written by Howell, with contributions by Susan Stonich...