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"A Starving Belly Doesn’t Listen to Explanations": Agricultural Evangelism in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1962

TODD H. LEEDY
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 479–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.479
Published: 01 October 2010
... by insisting that rationalized individual labor could overcome powerful natural forces. This article examines various facets of the American-based Methodist Episcopal Church’s agricultural evangelism in a period of growing state intervention. Despite careful missionary attempts to manage the outcomes...
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Fescue to the Rescue: Chewings Fescue, Paspalum, and the Application of Non-British Experience to Pastoral Practice in New Zealand, 1880–1920

Paul Star, Tom Brooking
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 312–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.312
Published: 01 July 2006
... the chain of events, the story of these adoptions equally reflects the influence of human and social factors upon the pattern of agricultural change. Individuals and newspapers were more integral to the process of investigating the uses of Chewings fescue and paspalum than departments and government reports...
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A Nineteenth–Century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty–First Century

Jeremy Atack
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.4.389
Published: 01 October 2004
...Jeremy Atack Abstract The paper announces the imminent availability of a major extension of the well-known Bateman-Foust sample. This new resource will contain linked agricultural and population census data between 1850 and 1880 for thousands of individuals in an expanded group of townships...
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Echoing off the Heart of the Heartland: The Mid-States Companies, Echocardiography, and Rural Medicine

Jay M. Price, James Mershon, Teddie Barlow
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 127–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.127
Published: 01 April 2005
.... Sometimes the physicians drove, but in many cases, they flew to the location. In the 1980s these individuals formed a series of companies under the name of "Mid-States whose employees performed diagnostic work ranging from echocardiography to pregnancy sonograms. One company even provided fitness equipment...
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Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman’s Empire in Texas and Alberta, 1875–1900

Andrew R. Graybill
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 253–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.253
Published: 01 July 2005
...Andrew R. Graybill Abstract During the cattle boom of the late nineteenth century, homesteaders at either end of the Great Plains raised livestock in conjunction with the cultivation of crops. In order to support their small herds of cattle, these individuals relied on unfettered access to grass...
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"Be Receptive to the Good Earth": Health, Nature, and Labor in Countercultural Back–to–the–Land Settlements

Ryan H. Edgington
Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 279–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.279
Published: 01 July 2008
... as the means to producing a healthy body and environment. Yet the individuals who went back-to-the-land often failed to remedy conflicts that arose as they attempted to abandon American consumer practices and take up a "primitive" and down-to-earth pastoral existence. Contact with rural nature time and again...
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The Agricultural Extension Service and Non-Whites in California, 1910–1932

ANGELA FIRKUS
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 506–530.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.506
Published: 01 October 2010
...ANGELA FIRKUS Abstract Congress created the Agricultural Extension Service (AES) in 1914 to disseminate agricultural research to individual farmers but the service operated differently in each state. In California, AES aided agribusiness in its efforts to create a "harmonious hierarchy...
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A Fair-Ribbon Quilt: Crafting Identity and Creating Memory

Jodey Nurse-Gupta
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 227–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.227
Published: 01 April 2018
... accomplishments and memories, display of individual creativity and style, expression of larger social goals and aspirations, and representation of the existence of shared interests and values among kin of both sexes. Furthermore, quilting embodies a particularly feminine art form used to fuse together people...
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Land Reform and Postcolonial Poverty in South Korea, 1950–1970

Sungjo Kim
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 276–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.2.276
Published: 01 April 2021
... of comparative studies of land reform within the politics of Cold War developmentalism. South Korean land reform in 1950 transformed most tenant farmers into independent small farm owners. Tenant farmers attained their long-held desire to own land, but individual farm management left them in a precarious state...
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The American Way of Farming: Pioneer Hi-Bred and Power in Postwar America

Margaret Weber
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 380–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.380
Published: 01 July 2018
.... It investigates the reorganization of the agricultural power structure and how this corn company attempted to circulate their singular vision of agriculture. To do this, Pioneer pursued an overall marketing strategy that sought to infiltrate every layer of the rural community, from the individual farmer...
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Cowboy and Indian Alliances in the Northern Plains

Zoltán Grossman
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 355–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.2.355
Published: 01 April 2003
... differences made individual alliances difficult to sustain, although the series of alliances progressively improved relations between certain local communities. Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 [Footnotes] 1 Zoltán Grossman, Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental...
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Port Wine Landscape: Railroads, Phylloxera, and Agricultural Science

Marta Macedo
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 157–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.2.157
Published: 01 April 2011
... in the Douro region of Portugal was as much a product of soil, local farming traditions, and individual entrepreneurship as it was of modern state science and national politics for agricultural improvement. The unprecedented public projects of building a railroad and fighting phylloxera permanently changed...
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Contemporary Agrarianism: A Reality Check

Melissa Walker
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.1.1
Published: 01 January 2012
...Melissa Walker Abstract Agrarian ideology—the celebration of farming and rural life for the benefit it brings to individuals and the nation—has become part of a widespread national discourse about what we eat and how we live. This essay examines major tenets of new agrarian thinking and offers...
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Restoring the Commons: Land Deals and the Migration of Manitoba Mennonites to Mexico in the 1920s

Hans Werner
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 452–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.452
Published: 01 October 2013
... system of the new Dominion of Canada giving rise to tension and conflict. When migration became a reality, conservative Mennonites sought to reestablish the colony and village tenure systemby seeking a block sale of their individual lands in Manitoba and by purchasing land in Mexico under colony title...
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State of Nature: Risk, Responsibility, and the Moral Economies of Agricultural Insurance in Nineteenth-Century France

Erika Vause
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 351–382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10474417
Published: 01 August 2023
... such risks—that of private individuals or the French state? This article argues that the repeated failures of the various proposals designed to protect peasants against the vagaries of nature had as much to do with practical impediments as they did with ideas about the “naturalness” of certain dangers...
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Managing the Farm: Bullshit in Theory and Practice

Shane Hamilton
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10910287
Published: 01 February 2024
... a pragmatic approach for empowering individual farmers to a more abstract set of theories offering a chimera of control. 66. Ho, Liquidated . Evidence is mixed on whether mergers and acquisitions produce the value that financial consultants predict; see, e.g., Steigenberger, “Challenge of Integration...
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Without Anger and Partiality”: Political Shelter in the History of Atomic Agriculture

Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11393933
Published: 01 November 2024
... that these approaches were promising but ultimately inferior. Yet they were pursued anyway, boosted by the priorities of governments and government-funded international agencies. The political and military value of atomic energy sheltered individual scientists, laboratories, and entire research programs from skepticism...
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An Alternative Means of Field Research: Extending Material Culture Analysis to Farm Implements

Cameron L. Saffell
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.088.4.517
Published: 01 October 2014
... that historians can research and incorporate information from farm implements to better understand cultural and farming practices either on the individual farm or in broader analyses of regional agriculture. Their application requires a commitment to the principles of material culture and some time...
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The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective

Patrick Bresnihan
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 559–560.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.559
Published: 01 October 2016
... in at least two respects. First, it examines the functioning and resilience of the commons in historical perspective. Second, rather than just focusing on the internal factors that shape individual behavior, de moor also examines the role of external factors in influencing the choices of commoners...
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The Farmer in England, 1650–1980

J. V. Beckett
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 328–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.328
Published: 01 April 2015
... in the literature of English agriculture is well known. Richard Hoyle and his team have provided a set of essays, some about individual farmers and others about groups or types of farmers and their work. Several of the essays are based on the collection of farm accounts and other papers held in the Rural History...
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