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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Graeme Wynn The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush . Kathryn Morse . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 243 was greatly affected by farm size; the large-farm community was much worse off than the small-farm community...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 272–274.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Chad Raymond Forests are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam . By Pamela D. McElwee . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-2959-9548-9 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 272 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Ken Owens After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley . David Vaught . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews However, the Panic of 1893 brought an end to the most speculative ventures, as well as the realization that the region was never...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
...JOSEPH M. HODGE Abstract This article draws attention to the unfolding debate concerning forest cover loss, climatic change, and declining cocoa production in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) during the early twentieth century. It argues that, although desiccationist theory was prevalent, its...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 476–477.
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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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... factors also limited the success of valley growers after World War II, despite the best efforts of growers and agricultural researchers to improve lettuce quality. "Like Ribbons Industrializing in the Salinas of Green and Gold": Lettuce and the Quest Valley, 1920-1965 for Quality GABRIELLA M. PETRICK...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2005
... (April1965): 299 -322. 13 Brooks Blevins , Hill Folks:A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002 ), 72 -82 Robert McGill , "Red Gold Ozark Tomatoes," Ozarks Watch9 (Summer1996): 23 King, "Memories of Tomato Canning...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 469–487.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Jason Hauser Abstract The 1799 discovery of gold in the North Carolina piedmont began a decades-long conversation about the desirability of mining in the region. Within the pages of local and national periodicals, a debate unfolded that pivoted around issues central not to mining...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 616–617.
Published: 01 October 2003
...David B. Hollander Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance . Jairus Banaji . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 616 / Agricultural History selves side-by-side with local farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands or Bangladeshi lowlands. One...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 617–619.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Derek Oden Canning Gold: Northern New England’s Sweet Corn Industry . Paul B. Frederic . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 617 The emperor Constantine initiated this revival by creating a stable gold currency around 311 a.d. While base-metal coins...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 239–241.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Christopher P. Magra Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island . Martha L. Keber . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 239 technology, reinvented the landscape, and created a prosperous new commu? nity" (220). And in each...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Dmytro Ostapenko Abstract The wheat-farming industry developed rapidly in the British Australian colony of Victoria between the late 1840s and early 1860s. Contrary to prevailing academic views, this paper demonstrates that the 1851 gold discoveries set up favorable economic conditions...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 443–463.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Donald J. Pisani Abstract In the decade before the California Gold Rush, the popular idea that Americans held a natural right to land as a legacy of the American Revolution was enriched and expanded by such events as the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, the Anti-Rent War in New York, the flood...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 224–245.
Published: 01 April 2013
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 830–832.
Published: 01 October 2000
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 354–363.
Published: 01 April 2002
... San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 ), 50 Robert Kelley , Gold Versus Grain: The Hydaulic Mining Controversy in California’s Sacramento Valley (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1959 ) 6 J. S. Holliday , The World...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 355–389.
Published: 01 April 2003
....), 20 January2003 12 James Main Jr. of the Red Thunder and Indigenous Environmental Network, a Gros Ventre, interview by author, Fort Belknap, Montana, 5 August 1997. 13 John Smart , "Gold and Ethnocide," Plains Truth (Billings, Mont.), Fall1993. 14 Mineral Policy Center...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 April 2005
... States. Young radicals were reacting to what they saw as the relatively staid, uncontroversial research of their elders. Except for the case of Gold? schmidt, who republished his work in 1978, young rural sociologists did not know of the "purges" and tribulations that had occurred within the discipline...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Captives zeroes in on the Chocó, a relatively remote, rainforest-covered, and gold-rich province of northwest Colombia. Historically and to this day, the Chocó's population has been overwhelmingly of African descent, a legacy of Spanish colonialism, Atlantic slavery, and coerced gold extraction from...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 January 2014
... allowed silver specie to be exchanged for gold at a ratio of sixteen to one. Many people thought that such a rate of exchange favored the inherent value of gold and so attempted to secure gold for silver certificates, resulting in a serious drain on the Treasury gold reserves—partially accounting...