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... Kind of Revolution , 109–20. 43. Hughes and Hunter, “Disease and ‘Development’ in Africa,” 443, 481. Irrigation Infrastructure, Technocratic Faith, and Irregularities of Vision: Canada s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in Ghana, 1965 1970 SHANNON STUNDEN BOWER Between 1965 and 1970...

...Chau Johnsen Kelly Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar Es Salaam . By Emily Brownell . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2020 . 278 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8229-4611-3. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 406...

...Patricia J. Rettig [email protected] The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau . By Erika Marie Bsumek . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2023 . 336 pp., $45.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781477303818 . Copyright...

... the land’s capacity for market agriculture. Slaves cleared land of its wood to prepare the terrain for planting, provide Britain’s empire with vital commodities, and build the infrastructure of daily material life in the region. As colonists and slaves came into sustained engagement with this landscape...

... of lettuce cultivation in the Salinas Valley during the inter-war period highlights how early growers harnessed organizational techniques, transportation infrastructures, and technological and scientific knowledge to transcend both the ephemeral nature of lettuce and consumer taste. Yet, these very same...

... infrastructure that integrated the press, the post, and agricultural societies, the appeal of silk drew in farmers and manufacturers of all classes and across many regions. Their disparate circumstances and motivations made a peculiar interest group, but one that secured considerable political and promotional...

... to frontiers such as sparse settlement, gender imbalance, the absence of infrastructure, the weakness of traditional Old World institutions, and racism lowered respect for authority and made law enforcement extremely difficult. The author suggests that the truth of the latter thesis is bolstered by the fact...

...Geoff Burrows Abstract The Great Depression in Puerto Rico was marked by interconnected infrastructural, environmental, and socioeconomic crises caused by the global economic contraction and two devastating natural disasters, the San Felipe and San Ciprián hurricanes of 1928 and 1932. After 1935...

... frontier, one that might further blur the boundaries between wild and cultivated nature. Farm and institutional infrastructures developed around such species as white-tailed deer and ring-necked pheasants, only to fade by the end of the interwar period. Game farming's lack of success ultimately stemmed...

...Viktor Pál Abstract During the nineteenth century many European scientists shared the view that a nation could compete successfully if only it improved its landscape via new infrastructures, such as large reclamation and river regulation projects, and via the intensive use of natural resources...

... 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...

..., examining the culture of waiting. Scarcity in everything from buses to food during the mid-1970s forced residents to find alternatives for the lack of infrastructure, as high fuel costs and lack of foreign exchange stymied public transportation systems and the ujamaa villages failed to produce sufficient...

... infrastructure” on which life depends: the burning or flooding of fields; the destruction of irrigation, food storage systems, and hunting grounds; the requisitioning of food and livestock; and the extirpation of prey animals. For Kreike, environcide is “total war” in that it constitutes the destruction of both...

... regulation (1970s–present). Frohlich claims that the FDA redefined the food label as a “public platform” (9) to promote choice and consumer self-care. This “government brand” (49), as it was called, contrasts with private brands in the information infrastructure, such as political party platforms or Gallup...

... contained to the nonhuman nor are they contained to the plantation. Humans and infrastructures shape imperial disarray. Chapter 4 describes the plantation as a site of human disease, including how transportation infrastructures became a site of infection. The tightly packed boats that brought contracted...

... the physical and economic infrastructure for settler towns, profiting even after the nation no longer depended on the rural West for its natural resources—lumber, copper, coal, crops—to fuel industrial America. Pilgeram argues that the history of the rural West continues to guide future development...

... these past experiences in order to chart a better future. In chapter 5, “Animals, Infrastructure, and Empire,” Jessica Wang discusses how humans used insect and bird introductions in Hawai‘i in an attempt to protect crops and cattle. Used as “biological control agents,” each species introduction caused...

... and interpretation of the transition from small-scale independent banana growers to vertical monopolies of a few international corporations, through detailed descriptions of railroads, ship ping and distribution systems and infrastructure, farm labor camps, and market development in theUnited States. However...

... together, and they blocked the Reagan-era plan for extensive infrastructure in the support of the MX missile. Aside from that, most decisions were made far away, whether it was the Pentagon 546 2013 Book Reviews selecting sites for efficient missile distribution or diplomats later insisting that silos...

... lacked the capacity and knowledge to use technology, from the project's conception in the 1920s onward planners concentrated their efforts on men by making new farming equipment, crop varieties, and irrigation infrastructure available to them. Yet despite considerable funds invested, the Office du Niger...