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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Bryant K. Barnes Abstract Georgia fruit growers embodied the intelligent, business-minded mentality about which New South boosters preached. Rather than stubbornly adding to the already glutted cotton markets, these modern farmers diversified. In supplying urban markets with fruit and truck...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Michael F. Magliari Hoboes, Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West . By Mark Wyman . New York : Hill and Wang , 2010 . 368 pp., $28.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8090-3021-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring substances...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 278–280.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Aviva Chomsky The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America . By Jason M. Colby . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 . 288 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4915-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Tiffany Earley-Spadoni Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods that We Eat . By Robert N. Spengler III . Oakland : University of California Press , 2019 . 392 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-5203-0368-8. Book Reviews 151 in the late nineteenth century...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 413–414.
Published: 01 July 2009
..."plantpathology,"a ratherwide-rangindgisciplinea,t somepoint.Surprisingltyhecoverage is internationali,ncludingseveral women from the Rothamsted 414 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World . Dan Koeppel . ...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 361–363.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Mark Moberg Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism . By James W. Martin . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89263-5942-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 250–251.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Dario A. Euraque Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach . By Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . 232 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4807-4 . © 2017...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 337–339.
Published: 01 May 2023
...John Henris [email protected] Fruit, Fiber, and Fire: A History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico . By William R. Carleton . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 228 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781496216168. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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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 (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Megan Raby Abstract From 1926 to 1974, the United Fruit Company operated the Lancetilla Experiment Station near Tela, Honduras. As a laboratory and botanical garden where one of the world's largest living collections of tropical fruits could be found, it stood in apparent contrast to the vast...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 218–242.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Benjamin Bryce Abstract This article examines how fruit growers in British Columbia and the provincial government got into the business of making wine in the first half of the twentieth century. Growers sought primarily to sell fruit and saw wine as a possible additional source of revenue. Rather...
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of supporting industries like canning factories to use less marketable produce. The “very cheap” labor was a major component in attracting investment in the fruit industry. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source More
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 5. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fact overlooked by railroad leaders, who justified high freight rates by saying that growers' promises of increased production “did not materialize.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits More
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 1. View of banana plantation, Tela, Honduras, 1922, UF54.044, United Fruit Company Photograph Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. More
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 3. “United Fruit Company Organization” chart showing the new research department under the management of Hartley Rowe, an industrial engineer by training. “Vice-Presidents of the United Fruit Company,” 132. More
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 5. United Fruit Division of Tropical Research logo, from letterhead used by D. H. Radler, October 7, 1959. Box 23, folder 289, Popenoe Papers, HIBD. Courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. More
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 263–264.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Colin M. Coates Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Les Fruits du Québec: Histoire et Traditions des Douceurs de la Table . Paul-Louis Martin . 2007 Book Reviews ous for the workers. A visitor in 1750 reported that instead of planting food crops, large landowners chose...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 278–280.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865 . Armstead L. Robinson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring Heineman, a brilliant and determined Chicago attorney, forced...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Frederick R. Davis Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America . Philip J. Pauly . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews providereliefto thousandsofmigranthseadingfora newlifeinKansas.In additiontolocalsourceso...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Daegan Miller Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in US Literature, 1850–1905 . By Kathryn Cornell Dolan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . 248 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-4988-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...