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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., given that he was the closing speaker for an event meant to showcase African Americans' achievements. He said, “I wish I could tell you that the agricultural situation today is bright and that we have found the honey pond and the flapjack tree that grows beside it. I can't tell you that because it would...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 277–313.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Atar David [email protected] Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land . By Tamar Novick . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2023 . 278 pp., $45.00 , paperback, 9780262039079 . Open access version: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5606/Milk...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 235–255.
Published: 01 October 2012
...David Pattinson Abstract The archaeological evidence for human consumption of honey in China dates back to the seventh millennium BCE, while the earliest reference to beekeeping is in a third century CE biography of a reclusive scholar who kept bees during the mid-second century. Based mainly upon...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Angélica Márquez-Osuna Abstract This article examines the role of the stingless bee Melipona beecheii in beekeeping practices in the Yucatán Peninsula, México, in the nineteenth century. Native to Yucatán, the Melipona bee is capable of producing large amounts of honey and has been bred by Maya...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 445–467.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Press, 1998), 23-24, 67, 111. 30 Xenophon quoted in Jonathan Ott, "The Delphic Bee: Bees and Toxic Honeys as Pointers to Psychoactive and Other Medicinal Plants," Economic Botany 52:3 (1998): 260-66. 31 E. D. Aubin, "Poisoning by Wild Honey," New Zealand Medical Journal 4:13 (1905): 19-25...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 322–343.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Bee Research Association , 1979 ), 36 – 38 ; Frederick R. Prete , “Can Females Rule the Hive? The Controversy over Honey Bee Gender Roles in British Beekeeping Texts of the Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries,” Journal of the History of Biology ( Spring 1991 ): 113 – 44 . 4. John...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2017
... with quantitative analysis. Alaine Hutson Huston-Tillotson University The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. By Gene Kritsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 160 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0119-936138-0. The Tears of Re unites ancient Egyptian honey bee history with the author s passion for bees...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of qualitative primary sources along with quantitative analysis. Alaine Hutson Huston-Tillotson University The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. By Gene Kritsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 160 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0119-936138-0. The Tears of Re unites ancient Egyptian honey bee...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 2023
... offers an engaging interplay of macro and micro history, telling a broader history of women's movements and nationalism in Canada, while also offering colorful snapshots of many individual women's stories. The example of a woman cheating in the honey jarring competition by dyeing kerosene to look like...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 274–275.
Published: 01 October 2012
... continent, Horn documents how beekeeping in the twentieth century is providing women throughout the world with economic opportunities. In Zambia women brew honey beer to help pay for labor to work the traditional bark hives. In Iraq women have taken beekeeping classes from US National Guard soldiers...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and legislative battles for labeling distinctions between real honey and manufactured “honey-like” syrups. Haushofer's work would have benefited from a discussion about how “wonder foods” influenced and were influenced by the broader culture of health, fitness, and food. Haushofer makes a case...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 393–408.
Published: 01 October 2005
... the ruts in the road made by others, in this case, the USDA, whose statistics favor counting heifers over honey. Commodity crops and livestock have defined what is important in American agri? culture, indeed, what is deemed normal, and we have mostly followed major commodities in our effort to understand...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 275–277.
Published: 01 October 2012
.... In Zambia women brew honey beer to help pay for labor to work the traditional bark hives. In Iraq women have taken beekeeping classes from US National Guard soldiers, and in Australia one woman finds beekeeping critical for her restaurant that features local foods and honey. Although Horn s book focuses...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2013
...: cane sugar, syrup, and molasses; beet sugar; corn syrup (including high-fructose corn syrup) and dextrose; sorghum; maple sugar and syrup; honey; saccharine; cyclamate; aspartame (Equal and NutraSweet); and sucralose (Splenda). While there is no overarching narrative or extended argument for example...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... The diversity of instances related to ancient Egyptian bees and their products leads the author to suggest that honey bees possessed special significance in the region s culture. Additional support appears in semiotic uses of bees in tombs, temples, titles, and the bee s representation of the Delta region...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 April 2013
...: cane sugar, syrup, and molasses; beet sugar; corn syrup (including high-fructose corn syrup) and dextrose; sorghum; maple sugar and syrup; honey; saccharine; cyclamate; aspartame (Equal and NutraSweet); and sucralose (Splenda). While there is no overarching narrative or extended argument for example...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
... to being self-sustaining on their little farms. In a good year they will have plenty of corn for themselves and their stock; they have chickens and eggs, milk and butter, and plenty of meat from their own hogs; honey and sorghum provide sweetening." He noted that subsis? tence farmers were adept at storing...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 248–252.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (e.g., honey, sorghums, tree saps, corn syrup) utilized by people living in different times and places. He then sought to explain, largely by drawing on class dynamics and social relations among people, the rise of sugarcane-derived sucrose as the dominant form of sweetener in nineteenth- and early...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 29–33.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... They either read Don Worster s Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) or Mike Honey s Sharecropper s Troubadour (2013). I want them concentrating their attention and time on their research papers during the last third of the course, although they have been writing a series of three or four...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
... Problem,” https://earthjustice.org/features/infographic-bees-toxic-problem . 67. EarthJustice, “Bees’ Toxic Problem.” 68. “USDA Provides $8 Million to Help Boost Declining Honey Bee Population,” Press Release no. 0130.14, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2014/06/20/usda-provides-8...
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