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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrea E. Duffy Abstract This article explores human responses to the climatic conditions of the late Little Ice Age (1850–1880s) in the Mediterranean world. Around the globe, the nineteenth century heralded the retreat of the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the arrival of the Anthropocene. Although...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 July 2006
...D. Bruce Dickson After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5,000 BC . Steven Mithen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 376 / Agricultural History Buhs's impressive research in the records of the ARS, especially his utiliza? tion of the Plant Pest Control Division...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 293–294.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Shane Hamilton Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America . By Jonathan Rees . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . 248 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Michael G. Chang [email protected] The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China . By Timothy Brook . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . 256 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691250403 . Copyright © 2025 The Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Yearly," newspaper clipping, 1937, Lettuce 1921–1922 Dillingham, "The Lettuce Industry in the Salinas Valley," 2 20 "Easterners Enjoy Tasty Salad Due to Efficient Operation of Industry," Salinas Index-Iournal , Aug. 18 , 1932 , 14 " Monterey Ice Moves to Sell Out to Local Growers ," news...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 292–293.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in shaping rural society an insight relevant to many other places. it will be a valuable book for scholars in many fields, from agricultural history and gender history to the history of the american West and asian american history. Connie Y. Chiang Bowdoin College Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 413–426.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the Present: The Role of a Historical Focus in Climate Change Adaptation Research .” Global Environmental Change 48 ( 2018 ): 195 – 205 . Behringer Wolfgang . A Cultural History of Climate . Cambridge : Polity , 2010 . Blom Philipp . Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 July 2008
... historians to recognize that agricultural research pursued in concert with other institutions empowered railroads to address all of these challenges in the period between 1900 and 1930. Notes 1 Illinois Central Railroad Research and Development Bureau (hereafter IC), Organization and Traffic...
View articletitled, The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad–Supported Agricultural Research
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 429–435.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Hammond , “The Battle Over Zomia,” The Chronicle Review , Sept. 4, 2011 , https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Battle-Over-Zomia/128845 (Accessed June 20, 2018 ). 3. On a peripheral point, in two places Scott misdates the Little Ice Age: 1500 – 1850 (39), and 1550 – 1850 (60). While...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 January 2014
... to make ice cream. They fetched ice from town, and my grandmother mixed the ingredients. She pulled a brown bottle from the kitchen shelves, thinking it was vanilla, and added a teaspoon or two of the contents into the custard, poured the custard into the ice cream freezer, and took it out to the men...
View articletitled, Persistence, Change, and Thinking Big about Small Places: Some Thoughts about the Practical Applications of Rural and Agricultural History
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 272–288.
Published: 01 April 2002
...-shaped cone delta. The controlling of the river by the dam allowed the flow to cut and maintain a channel on the high ground at the center of the delta, which local farmers proceeded to reinforce in order to farm the fertile bottom lands previously subject to flood. Predictably, ice 9...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 840–841.
Published: 01 October 2000
... source documents for the classroom. This is by no means a comprehensive text of U.S. environmental history, nor does Penna claim that it is. Instead, the author examines four major top? ics including the history of forests and forestry; wildlife, hunting and habitat; and water and air quality...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 445–452.
Published: 01 August 2022
... settlements over much of Afro-Eurasia. It was followed, alas, by the dislocations of the so-called Little Ice Age, some of which are interpreted by Headrick as expressions of nature's agency manifested in harvest failures, plague, civil strife, and other forms of negative “feedback.” Headrick shifts his...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 2013
... plains; eighteen thousand years since the last major advance of ice; and the dramatic reversal ten thousand years ago when the prairies of historic times came to dominate the continent s midsection, covering an enormous swath of land 1,500 miles long and up to 700 miles wide, stretching from southern...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 January 2014
.... This book provides the first continental perspective on Native American responses to the impacts of long-term climate changes. The period reviewed extends from AD 900 1600, summarizing evidence on environmental conditions during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP; AD 900 1300) and the Little Ice Age (LIA; AD...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 537–538.
Published: 01 October 2013
... (Good Housekeeping, especially), and utility companies (ice, gas, electricity) largely in cities. Home economists ranked a bit higher ethically than advertisers and ran demonstrations that informed consumers about the new possibilities, but they left the actual sales to males. Here Goldstein makes very...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 142–144.
Published: 01 January 2014
... on environmental conditions during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP; AD 900 1300) and the Little Ice Age (LIA; AD 1300 1600). Supporting archaeological evidence comes from the American Southwest, southern Plains, and Southeast. Pioneering efforts like this are challenged to develop frameworks for synthesizing...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 462–463.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Civil War West, from the federal dispossession of native peoples, to western cattle drives, to exodusters, tornados, and ice storms. Much of the town s activities centered upon Kansas State Agricultural College, founded in 1863, which was (by some definitions) the nation s first land-grant school...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of the major lines of thought can be mentioned. Sagoff establishes and defends a much more limited role for econom? ics in environmental studies and decision procedures than many in environ? mental economics would accept. Although environmental decisions would be more efficiently made if everything within...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
... with influence over technological change.With itsfocus on thepowerful, his narrative can sometimes minimize the importance ofworkers, consumers, and end-users in the construction of technologies. 118 2009 Book Reviews As an introductory text,TheMachine inAmerica covers thebenchmark top ics in thehistoryof...
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