... Leland O. Howard , " Injurious Insects and Commerce ," Division of Entomology, USDA, Insect Life, Vol. 7 , 1895 , 332 -38 L. O. Howard , " Danger of Importing Insect Pests ," Division of En¬ tomology, USDA, Yearbook , 1897 , 529 -52 3 L. O. Howard , A History...

... on Injurious Insects Delivered at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester... on Thursday, October 20th 1881 (Cirencester: G. H. Harmer, 1881), 4 Harry Rothman, "Insect Pest Control Research: The Analysis of Historical Trends With Special Reference to Scientometric Analysis," (Ph.D. diss., University...

...James E. McWilliams Abstract The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance...

... science, as well as science and the state, Castonguay's book is very rewarding. Making use of a number of archival resources hitherto little exploited, Castonguay explores these problems through the history of economic entomology-the science of the control of noxious insects in agriculture and forestry...

..., poetry, and fiction. See, James C. Giesen , “Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South, 1892–1930” ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , forthcoming). 5. In the last thirty years, the leading scholarship presents the insect's impact as balanced and multifaceted...

... into the correspondence of the warriors and contemporary literature to detail the history of the insect's escape from captivity in 1869, its delight in American oak leaves, and the attempts of gypsy moth commissioners and economic entomologists to suppress it in the 1890s. The Great Gypsy Moth War describes a pioneering...

... Charles Gordon Hewitt was sent to Canada (at that time a British dominion), entrusted with the mission of promulgating a law against noxious insects as well as developing outreach activities. Despite the applied character of his mission, Hewitt developed new entomological cognitive knowledge. In contrast...

... children to remove insects is mentioned also as an old, recommended practice in Whorton, Before Silent Spring , 14 . 44. Skard, Hagebruk og gartneri i Norge , 303 ; Gartneryrket, Norsk gartneri og hagebruk gjennom 50 år , 46, 70 ; Almås, Fra bondesamfunn til bioindustri , 152; Frøyen, “‘Fyll...

... by a desire to protect Allied troops against insect-borne diseases such as typhus, malaria, and dengue fever, researchers at theUSDA's Bureau of Entomol ogy and Plant Quarantine laboratory inOrlando developed new synthetic, chemical pesticides with tremendous toxic power and persistence. In 1943, the US Army...

... Castonguay , “Creating an Agricultural World Order: Regional Plant Protection Problems and International Phytopathology, 1878–1939,” Agricultural History ( Winter 2010 ): 46 – 73 ; Providências legislativas adoptadas em Portugal ; Sarah Jansen , “An American Insect in Imperial Germany...

... experiment stations established the conditions for war in Massachusetts. This war was waged by men with imperfect weapons and an incomplete knowledge of the enemy's habits. Spears dives into the correspondence of the warriors and contemporary literature to detail the history of the insect's escape from...

... of the “republic of letters,” see, Paul Keen , The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 ), 31 – 75 . 37. Samuel Purchas , A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects ( London : R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst , 1657...

..., however, from the manner in which White balances sources, scholarship, and analysis with impeccable dexterity. This excellence is exemplified in, for example, coverage of the arrival of phylloxera, disputes over types of treatment of the vine-feeding insect, and evidence of how phylloxera highlighted...

... agricultural threats ranging from insects to floods and earthquakes and considering whether each could possibly be insured by a nationwide mutual system based on his own association. Although Louis XVIII apparently paid little attention to Barrau's scheme, similar proposals appeared in growing numbers...

... in California's fields. "What made sense in the calculus of commerce," Stoll writes, "made for a risky ecology" (93). Singlecrop specialization created ecological niches in which pesky insects flour? ished and threatened the whole industry. One solution to this problem (the importation of natural predators...

.... In chapters on early postwar malaria control programs in Sardinia, green revolution agricultural programs, and the global malaria eradication programs, Kinkela shows how American policymakers used DDT as a Cold War tool. For many, DDT was not simply a chemical compound that eliminated insect pests, he...

..., there is also a consid erable amount of information about local soils and flora, theunusual botany of the banana and related Musa species, the ecology of tropical rainforests on theNorth Coast ofHonduras, and the formidable pest complex of fungi, nematodes, and insects thatplagued and nearly defeated...

... publications on crops, pasture, gardening, foods, weeds, insects, diseases, livestock, machinery, buildings, soils, natural resources, farm economies, and farm life are offered in the original formatting whenever possible. In addition, there are 121 black and Book Reviews / 127 white historical photographs...

... on plant husbandry, including possible etiologies behind plant diseases: solar heat and humidity, lightning, frozen sap, fungi, miasma, overpruning, and the most popular of all, insects. Part Two discusses the creation of a "new botany," triggered by a wider intellectual movement for institutionalized...

... insects and weeds, and maintain soil fertility. Although interwar farmers adopted tractors and hybrid seeds, an Iowa farmer s work in 1940 was little different, Joe Anderson contends, from that of a farmer in 1900. But as Anderson demonstrates in this important contribution to US agricultural history...