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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule

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Macabe Keliher
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.1.193
Published: 01 January 2019
...Macabe Keliher A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule . By Jonathan Schlesinger . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 288 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...
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No Longer Wild but “Wildstock”: Fox Farming in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick

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Ian J. Jesse
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.084
Published: 01 January 2020
...Ian J. Jesse Abstract Canada experienced a surge of fur farming during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of fashion. The practice was promoted as a relatively easy way in which rural people could earn great income. In the province of New Brunswick, where cash-earning...
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From Trade Routes to Rural Farm: The Biography of the Pierre Bruce Fiddle

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Roland Sawatzky
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 244–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.244
Published: 01 April 2018
... historical context of Métis ethnogenesis, mobility, changing land use practices, and genealogy. Following multiple generations of the Bruce family as the owners of this violin, we can begin to understand its transformative role in the Canadian Northwest as it moved from the mobility of the fur trade...
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The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West

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Ginette Aley
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 553–554.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.553
Published: 01 October 2013
... competed against or cooperated with each other in the pursuit of natural resources. One can hardly understand the complicated struggles of the region and its relationship to national development without examining the role of the fur trade (which peaked between 1825 and 1845) and related activities...
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Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882

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Nathan F. Sayre
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 267–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.2.267
Published: 01 April 2016
... West Company, historians have studied the colonial Canadian fur trade in remarkable detail. George Colpitts s Pemmican Empire puts these archives to work in a different but complementary direction by examining what the fur traders ate. Traveling long distances with heavy loads, compelled by short...
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Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields

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Drew Swanson
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 177–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10337931
Published: 01 May 2023
... as they carved out farmsteads. It then fueled the hide, fur, and plume trades, activities that are almost always labeled extractive rather than agricultural. These pursuits were then displaced by agriculture, and hunting became seasonal and increasingly recreational, a practice of relatively minor significance...
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Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier

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Lawrence Hatter
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 566–567.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.3.566
Published: 01 July 2019
... merger in 1821, and the determination of the United States to Americanize the fur trade by evicting foreign traders from its imperial domain in the West. Catton describes his approach as a kind of frontier Rashoman tale, evoking the 1950 classic Akira Kurosawa film, Rashômon, which presented...
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No Smoke Without Fire: Moor Burning, the Environment, and Social Reform in the German Empire, 1866–1914

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Elizabeth B. Jones
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 207–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.2.207
Published: 01 April 2014
... der Historischen Landeskommission für Steiermark , 1970 ); Russell , “Wie ist den Nachtheilen, welche aus dem Moorbrennen entstehen am zweckmäβigsten zu begegnen?” Journal für Landwirtschaft 1 : 2 ( 1866 ): 157 – 78 ; Georg Hanssen , Zur Geschichte der Feldsysteme in Deutschland...
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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

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Gabrielle Guillerm
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 500–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10474548
Published: 01 August 2023
..., the Michigan Territory long remained dominated by the fur trade, which required the ongoing presence of Anishinaabe families hunting and processing the furs. Into the 1830s, the Anishinaabeg dominated the demography in most areas of the Michigan Territory. Individual stories, such as the experience...
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Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Cynthia G. Falk
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 552–553.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.552
Published: 01 October 2013
... who at times competed against or cooperated with each other in the pursuit of natural resources. One can hardly understand the complicated struggles of the region and its relationship to national development without examining the role of the fur trade (which peaked between 1825 and 1845) and related...
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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
...: Ambivalenzen der wissenschaftlichen Expertise im ausgehenden 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert , ed. Eric J. Engstrom et al. ( Frankfurt : Peter Lang , 2005 ), 101 – 102 ; Volker Klemm , “Die Entstehung eigenständiger Landbauwissenschaften in Deutschland (1800– 1830),” Zeitschrift für...
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The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science

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Samantha Noll
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 567–569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.3.567
Published: 01 July 2019
...Samantha Noll Book Reviews 567 fathered eleven children before he went to work for the American Fur Company. John McLoughlin was born in Québec to Irish and Canadien parents, finding employment as an apprentice clerk and physician with the Montreal-based North West Company. Though better known...
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A Business History of Alberta

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James Opp
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 501–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.4.501
Published: 01 October 2001
... distinct stages: the fur trade to 1870, the territorial period of general merchants and ranchers/farmers, the growing specialization of firms in the early provincial development from 1905 to World War II, big business and the consumer marketing of the early post-war period, and finally the last stage...
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792

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Kristalyn Shefveland
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 146–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.146
Published: 01 January 2020
... and detailed study of the power of Indigenous women in the Ohio River Valley is a welcome addition to the emerging scholarship on settler innocence and a reexamination of long-held myths about acquisition and settlement. Sleeper-Smith begins with a discussion about the emphasis on conflict, from the fur trade...
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The Crops Look Good: News from a Midwestern Family Farm

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Megan Birk
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 268–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.2.268
Published: 01 April 2016
... with their rich social, political, and economic details (although the details sometimes become unwieldy, especially for readers not already expert in the fur trade literature and the geography of the region). Overall, Pemmican Empire is a fascinating and impressive piece of historical scholarship, illuminating...
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa

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Thomas Burnell Colbert
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 499–501.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.4.499
Published: 01 October 2001
... for the sake of consistency, or to try to appeal to a nonacademic audience, is never explained. Klassen divides the history of business in Alberta into five distinct stages: the fur trade to 1870, the territorial period of general merchants and ranchers/farmers, the growing specialization of firms in the early...
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The Nature of Illinois: Storytelling, Podcasts, and the Classroom

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Camden Burd
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 662–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10795975
Published: 01 November 2023
... student explored how the colonial fur trade led to broader cultural encounters in the Great Lakes region. Another explored how overtrapping and Euro-American agricultural development led to the collapse of the American Fur Company in the region. Yet another student, interested in the history of coal...
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New Materialisms, Familiar Challenges

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John Soluri
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 248–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9634533
Published: 01 May 2022
... In my research on the exploitation of animals in southern Patagonia for furs and fibers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I draw on Mintz when trying to understand the interplay of genetics (i.e., selective breeding), socio-ecological conditions (i.e., the particularity of places), and mass...
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The Practice of Timber Granting from Lords to Peasants: A Forest-Historical Perspective of the Gutsherrschaft in Brandenburg-Prussia from 1650 to 1850

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Takashi Iida
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 502–524.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.502
Published: 01 October 2013
... development of the woodland in Brandenburg, see, Karl Hasel and Ekkehard Schwartz , Forstgeschichte: Ein Grundriss für Studium und Praxis ( Remagen : Verlag Dr. Kessel , 2006 ), 45 – 49 , 100f ; Karl Hasel , Zur Geschichte der Forstgesetzgebung in Preuben ( Frankfurt am Main : J. D...
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Exploring Agriculture in the Age of Industrial Capitalism: Swiss Farmers and Agronomists in North America and the Transnational Entanglements of Agricultural Knowledge, 1870s to 1950s

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Juri Auderset, Peter Moser
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 91–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619808
Published: 01 May 2022
... der Milchwirtschaftskongress” ; Peter, “Vom Weltkongress für Milchwirtschaft” ; Burri, Die städtische Milchversorgung . 31. Moos, “Schweizerische landwirtschaftliche Studienreise,” 25 . 32. Flückiger, “Mediators.” 33. Lüthi, Wanderjahre in Amerika , 5 . 34. Wahlen...
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