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The Transformation of the Dutch Farm Horse into a Riding Horse: Livestock Breeding, Science, and “Modernization,” 1960s–1980s
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Bert Theunissen Abstract This article analyzes the postwar transformation of the Dutch Warmblood farm horse into a riding horse. It gives special attention to the farmers’ practical breeding methods and to the role that scientists and government policymakers played in the transformation process...
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The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 263–264.
Published: 01 April 2009
...George B. Ellenberg The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century . Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews renderedobsolescenta modelofeconomicorganizationthathadservedthe familywellformorethana hundredyears...
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Breeds of Empire: The "Invention" of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500–1950
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 420–421.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Margaret E. Deny © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Breeds of Empire: The "Invention" of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950 . Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart . AgriculturHalistory Summer Breeds of Empire:The "Invention"of theHorse in SoutheastAsia...
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Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 April 2017
... that are often underemphasised in more limited studies. Gerhard J. Ens University of Alberta Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World. By Royden Loewen. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016. 256 pp., $27.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-88755-798-9. Book Reviews 265 If modernity...
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Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 413–415.
Published: 01 July 2016
...James Hill Welborn III Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack . By Katherine C. Mooney . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28142-4 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...
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An Exceedingly Dicey Business: Frontier Horse Ranching on the Northern Great Plains
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 462–477.
Published: 01 October 2005
... explanation of how all these conditions came together in the high-bred horse business on one very large ranch in southern Alberta. The author’s central argument is frontier ranching proved uneconomic in this case and thus in many others on both sides of the Canadian/American border. Copyright 2005...
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John Haldeman sits astride a horse next to a deep gully in Melrose (Jackson...
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Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 4. John Haldeman sits astride a horse next to a deep gully in Melrose (Jackson County), Wisconsin, in 1939. Jackson lies two counties east of Buffalo County. Photographer unknown. Source: Douglas Helms Collection, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.
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When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 119–121.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Patricia Stovey When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 . By Olaf F. Larson . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 168 pp., $17.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-28204-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...
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Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 122 / Agricultural History Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses 1800. By Margaret...
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Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 545–546.
Published: 01 October 2010
... theupward tra jectory of intensive agriculture in the Islamic world as a decisive break with the past, it is best viewed as continuing long-standing ancient development and adaptation" (227). David B. Hollander Iowa State University Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture. By Donna...
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Home Cures for Ailing Horses: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century Vernacular Veterinary Medicine in Tennessee
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 311–337.
Published: 01 July 2016
... to the professionalization of veterinary medicine. Using Tennessee in the nineteenth century as a case study, this paper examines the corpus of popular knowledge on the identification and treatment of horse ailments available to lay people in printed sources, focusing primarily on newspapers and to a lesser extent on patent...
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Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2008
...George B. Ellenberg Global/Comparative AgriculturHalistory Spring Horses inSocietyA: StoryofAnimal BreedingandMarketingCulture, 1800-1920. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: Universityof Toronto Press, 2006. 304 pp., $60.00,hardback,ISBN 0-8020-9112-1. In recent years, historians have begun to examine...
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Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945–1960
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to the world and not the red horse rider of the apocalypse. © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 NOTES 1. The author would like to thank the editorial staff and anonymous reviewers at Agricultural History for their helpful suggestions and advice during the publishing process, along...
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Barbed and Dangerous: Constructing the Meaning of Barbed Wire in Late Nineteenth-Century America
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 566–590.
Published: 01 October 2014
... “American progress” and portrayed an ordered and secured domestic landscape. And, of course, they promised to control horses, cattle, and sheep. The focus on barbed-wire advertising affords a richly detailed look at beliefs and prejudices of Americans, at least as advertisers saw Americans, in the last...
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Debating Farm Power: Draft Animals, Tractors, and the United States Department of Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 545–568.
Published: 01 April 2000
... of horses and mules on American farms well into the twentieth century.1 GEORGEB. ELLENBERGis an associateprofessorof historyat the Universityof WestFlorida. 1. This debate was treatedin an earlierissue of thisjournal,but the authorsdid not examine theattemptto courtthe USDA. See AlanL...
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Agricultural History Talks to Sandra Swart
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 407–410.
Published: 01 July 2007
... thehorse.Essentially,I researchthesocial changes inhumansocietiesinsouthernAfricawroughtby theintroduc tion of horses. Horses act as a lens into understanding social and politi cal processes.My methodology includesregulararchivalsources and also oral history, with research trips to a variety of places inSouth Africa...
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Purity: Its Role in Livestock Breeding and Eugenics, 1880–1920
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 580–609.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Shorthorns in the transatlantic trade, tenant farmers Lawrence Drew and David Riddell set out to label the Clyde as a “breed” and not a “type.” They believed that distinction would enable them to market horses better. While they claimed purity because they kept pedigrees in a stud book, they bred as they had...
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Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 February 2025
... humans, livestock animals, and the horses laboring in the city streets were all understood as “living capital” (21). Many contemporaneous authors sought to change conditions for both enslaved humans and other animal beings so that they were no longer seen as “expendable property” (25). This was at odds...
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Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2006
... illustrating this volume. Wittliff s portraits of individual thirty-dollar-a-month vaqueros?they range across a temporal continuum that stretches from the very young to the aged? are simply striking. And his ability to capture and freeze into place a sense of fluid movement?galloping horses, flying ropes...
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Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 January 2018
... the insights of evolutionary science, he traces the biogeographical distribution, genetic composition, and behavioral engagement with humans of three animal families horses, pigs, and dogs through deep time and space, beginning in Eurasia during the Pleistocene Epoch and following chronologically through...
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