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...Jeannie M. Whayne Hill Folk: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image . Brooks Blevins . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 380 / Agricultural History For historians, this book is valuable for its descriptions of daily life and work in the region. In case studies...

...Jan Logemann Landscape and Images . John R. Stilgoe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews relevant to theirown work is something agricultural historians can judge for themselves. It is tomine. Brian Donahue Brandeis University Landscape and Images.By...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg; Geoff Cunfer; R. Douglas Hurt; Julie Courtwright Abstract Historical documentaries have a wider audience and often a greater visceral impact than written histories. They frequently resonate deeply with viewers through the use of images, first-person narratives, and evocative...

... to have McCormick Senior's image printed on federal currency, left the brand susceptible to competing claims on the past from the company's competitors. © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 NOTES 1. S. C. P. Miller , “Reminiscences of Cyrus H. McCormick,” “In Memoriam—Cyrus Hall...

...Neil Oatsvall Abstract While most stories of splitting the atom—from Chernobyl to Fukushima and Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands—revolve around images of pure destruction and human misery, the truth is that a much more complicated relationship has existed between nuclear technologies and human...

... a monolithic image of white, detached owners of large landholdings running industrial farms, while people of color toiled without power, safety, or a livable wage. McWilliams was not necessarily incorrect, but the reality is far more complex. The following article seeks to recover some of the stories obscured...

... challenges. Like Aldrich, historians contest the region’s stultifying and monolithic image to bring to light the wide variety of meaningful and important gendered and cross-cultural experiences. Although the region is often difficult to interpret in all of its complexity, contradictions, and variations...

... promoting space age, push-button imagery and then the notion of the “farmer in the business suit, “ before turning away from images of actual farm folk toward increasingly hyper-masculine paid models. This shift also corresponded with challenges to traditional masculinity, including the Cold War, the Farm...

..., gangsters stealing from small town banks, prohibition officers raiding rural stills, or farmers hanging themselves from barn rafters. The climate of financial fear, whether real of exaggerated, added to this overall morbid tension, and midwestern rural society no longer projected an idealistic image...

... operations through their use of science, promotion of sustainable agriculture, aggressive marketing, protection of wine’s image from attacks by neoprohibitionists, and courtship of government agencies for money and favorable policies. After managing domestic production and sales, forward-thinking...

... claimed upward of thirty thousand members and constituted an assault on the social, economic, and racial status quo of the South. Historians have celebrated the STFU, especially its commitment to biracial cooperation and equality. This article digs beneath this carefully constructed image of the union...

... analysis to inform audiences about barriers preventing farmwomen from achieving their full potential; it also offered solutions to those problems. Addresses made by Colby and others were foundational to creating a modern image of the farm wife. Read in context with women's oratory on similar topics...

... masculinity. Visual images designed to persuade young men to stay on the farm echoed the iconography intended to recruit men into the military. Wartime propaganda portrayed both the ideal serviceman and the ideal farmer as white, muscular, and ready to use his powerful body to fight the war on the battlefield...

.... To protect their culture, Old Colony stalwarts left Mexico for eastern Bolivia in the 1960s where, ironically, they were viewed as agricultural innovators. This image changed once again with environmental and religious challenges in the late twentieth century. The steel-wheeled tractor’s many transformations...

... shows that rural regions like Secaucus were enveloped into urban markets in the late nineteenth century. Yet, Secaucus also complicates the image of “urban imperialism” that pervades hinterland literature, demonstrating how hinterland neighbors often capitalized on urban waste. © 2021 Agricultural...

... men, understood that land promised economic opportunity and security for themselves and their families. Their efforts to maintain and build upon their estates challenge their image as mere caretakers. Land was a vital concern to women because it helped them to fulfill their responsibilities as wives...