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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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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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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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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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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 420–421.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Margaret E. Deny Breeds of Empire: The "Invention" of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950 . Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Summer Breeds of Empire:The "Invention"of theHorse in SoutheastAsia...
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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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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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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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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2008
...George B. Ellenberg Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Global/Comparative AgriculturHalistory Spring Horses inSocietyA: StoryofAnimal BreedingandMarketingCulture, 1800...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 545–546.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Peter Edwards Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture . Donna Landry . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews have added a few new methods of planting and grafting" and observes "a strong tendency to improve strains and develop new varieties...
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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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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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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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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 545–568.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., USDA, Circular no. 149 , March1920, 7 Farm Power Conference letter, 16 September 1919, ROSA-GC 5 The Horse Association of America was incorporated on 15 January 1920 Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting, 1920 (Chicago: Horse Association of America, 1921 ), 12 -13, 35 Olmstead...
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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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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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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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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 544–545.
Published: 01 October 2010
... 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 Landry. Baltimore: JohnsHopkins...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Hill: University of North Carolina, 2017); and Sandra Swart and Greg Bankoff, eds., Breeds of Empire: The “Invention” of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007). For attitudes to breeding that existed before the Enlightenment period...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 262–263.
Published: 01 April 2009
...,hereforteh, atshe didnotbenefitfroma ruthlescsopyeditoarnd attentivoeutsidereaderswho wouldhaveheldhertoa greatlyhigherstandardofwriting. WarrenM. Billings UniversitoyfNew Orleans The Horse in the City:Living Machines in theNineteenthCenturyB. y Clay McShane and JoelA. Tarr.Baltimore:JohnsHopkins University...