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“The Single Most Important Factor”: Fossil Fuel Energy, Groundwater, and Irrigation on the High Plains, 1955–1985
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 629–663.
Published: 01 October 2020
... considerable attention, but energy has not been treated as an important part of the story. John Opie, Char Miller, and Kenna Lang Archer, Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land , 3rd ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018); Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (College Station...
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Selling pheasants and eggs to other breeders was an important part of many ...
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in Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields
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Published: 01 May 2023
figure 9. Selling pheasants and eggs to other breeders was an important part of many pheasant farming operations. Game Breeder , October 1918, 28.
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“The American Hay Elevator.” This widely reprinted advertisement used the s...
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in Exploring Agriculture in the Age of Industrial Capitalism: Swiss Farmers and Agronomists in North America and the Transnational Entanglements of Agricultural Knowledge, 1870s to 1950s
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 3. “The American Hay Elevator.” This widely reprinted advertisement used the symbolic meaning of technological progress associated with American farm machinery to promote a hay elevator that Hans Moos had initially imported from the United States in 1893. © Archives of Rural History, Bern
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Viticulture in El Paso del Norte during the Colonial Period
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 191–200.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Rick Hendricks Abstract Imported grapes planted in El Paso del Norte around the middle of the seventeenth century grew to be substantial vineyards by the opening decades of the eighteenth century. Some growers had tens of thousands of vines under cultivation and produced wine and brandy...
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The Rise and Decline of the Kerosene Kitchen: A Neglected Energy Transition in Rural America, 1870–1950
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 2020
... women says little about this important energy transition before electricity and gas. For rural and farm households, where the alternative was coal or wood, oil offered significant benefits, and to farm women especially it was a godsend. Oil was cleaner, quicker, cooler, lighter, and more portable...
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"A Starving Belly Doesn’t Listen to Explanations": Agricultural Evangelism in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1962
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 479–505.
Published: 01 October 2010
...TODD H. LEEDY Abstract Both missionaries and government policymakers in colonial Zimbabwe consciously identified agriculture as an important avenue in establishing broader paradigms of explanation. Missionary promotion of new farming practices inevitably challenged the existing spiritual landscape...
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The Characteristics of Coffee Production and Agriculture in the State of São Paulo in 1905
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 22–50.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein; William Summerhill Abstract This study, based on an extraordinary agricultural census carried out in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1905, analyzes both the importance and the structure of the fazendas (coffee plantations) in that state and shows...
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Farm Machinery Users, Designers, and Government Policy in Argentina, 1861–1930
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 351–379.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Yovanna Pineda Abstract This article examines the relationship between the Argentine government’s agricultural policy and farm machinery use and design between 1861 and 1930, showing how this policy strongly influenced the continuous importation of farm machinery from North Atlantic countries...
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Supply and Demand: The Mutual Dependency of Children's Institutions and The American Farmer
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 78–103.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Megan Birk Abstract The family farm played an important role in the development of a welfare system for dependent children in the United States. This became increasingly true in the second half of the nineteenth century as the population of institutionalized children grew alongside the desire...
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Oxen to Organs: Chattel Credit in Springdale Town, 1849–1900
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 420–452.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Allan G. Bogue; Brian Q. Cannon; Kenneth J. Winkle Abstract Historians have noted the importance of chattel-mortgage financing in nineteenth-century Midwestern agriculture, including its contribution to farmer distress but have not examined its incidence, purposes, or practices in detail. Here...
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In the Shadow of Rice: Roots and Tubers in Indonesian History, 1500–1950
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 582–610.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Peter Boomgaard Abstract Roots and tubers are not well documented in Indonesian historiography. Colonial civil servants regarded root crops as famine food, and they were rarely included in indigenous chronicles. This article presents data for the period 1500 to 1950 on the most important indigenous...
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Fighting Poverty in the Fields: Legal Services and the War on Poverty in Rural California
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the development of CRLA, some of its major cases, its high-profile conflicts with Ronald Reagan, and, ultimately, the declining efficacy of its legal strategy. Nonetheless, CRLA’s work reveals the importance of anti-poverty policy in addressing the farm economy, and the importance of rural struggles to the fate...
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Antebellum US Cotton Production and Slavery in the Indian Mirror
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 5–38.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Alan L. Olmstead Abstract In the nineteenth century the British repeatedly attempted to improve the quality of Indian cotton. This was a major enterprise involving the importation of thousands of pounds of exotic seeds, the establishment of experimental farms and outreach programs, and the hiring...
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Australia's Entanglement in Global Cotton
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 29–53.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as much as their own nation's political and economic imperatives. Scientists and farmers relied on American experience, importing seed, knowledge, personnel, and technology. The global market reflected fluctuations in the US cotton industry and the demands of English cotton mills. Australia relied...
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From Bread to Cake: A Global History of Pacific Northwest Wheat during the Cold War
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Craig Morris; David Bolingbroke Abstract This article deepens our understanding of Cold War–era agricultural history by examining the relationship between Pacific Northwest soft white wheat and Japanese importers and consumers. Recent historiography of wheat during the Cold War has focused...
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A Controversial International Cooperation: A Study of the China–United States Agricultural Mission, 1946–1948
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 52–76.
Published: 01 February 2025
... led by Claude B. Hutchison and delegates from China led by Zou Binwen. The delegates developed a comprehensive plan for agricultural development, technology imports, infrastructure construction, and international trade, which soon came under criticism as a vision for the economic and technological...
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“The Herald of Prosperity”: Tracing the Boll Weevil Myth in Alabama
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2011
... itself and its supposed transformation of southern agriculture. By examining the local conditions that gave rise to dramatic, albeit short-lived, crop diversification, and in turn the monument’s erection, this essay uncovers the ways in which the boll weevil myth was as important a force on southern life...
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Two Kinds of Freedom: Mercantile Development and Labor Systems in Louisiana Cotton and Sugar Parishes After the Civil War
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Scott P. Marler Abstract Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post–Civil War South has long been widely acknowledged, by far the most careful and influential analysis of rural merchants is Ransom and Sutch's One Kind of Freedom (1977), which used mostly region-wide data...
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A Few Thoughts on Graduate Mentoring
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 195–203.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract Mentoring graduate students is a far different task than teaching undergraduates, involving a different set of skills and a high level of long-term commitment. This article discusses a number of principles important to the task of mentoring, from choosing one's...
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“What We Need is a Crop Ecologist”: Ecology and Agricultural Science in Progressive-Era America
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 297–321.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Mark D. Hersey Abstract Though they are often seen as foils for each other, ecology and agricultural science co-evolved. With shared roots in late nineteenth-century botany, ecologists and agronomists fostered important connections during the Progressive Era that have been largely overlooked...
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