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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Marc Becker Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas . Aaron Bobrow-Strain . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews do so efficientlybecause specialization allows them to simplifymanagement and optimize capital investment bymaximizing...
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Happy Land: Women Landowners in Early West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1813–1845
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 484–510.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Adam Sundberg; Sara Brooks Sundberg Abstract While it is well known that a widespread minority of white women owned agricultural land in the early South, scholars rarely interpret them as landowners actively involved in acquiring or managing their lands. This paper investigates women as landholders...
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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 534–535.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Frederick Knight Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction . Edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2012 . 352 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-3986-2 . © the Agricultural...
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Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815–1861
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 275–276.
Published: 01 April 2008
... and difference that the author does a fine job of drawing out and interpreting in often thought-provoking, ifnot always persuasive, ways. James D. Miller CarletonUniversity 276 Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815...
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The Abolition of the Colonate: Long-Term Sharecropping Relations in Dalmatia, 1918–1946
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 513–535.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Ivan Hrstić Abstract The colonate was a long-term system of sharecropping widely used on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, especially in Dalmatia. It was a private-law relationship between a landowner and a tenant, who was usually a peasant with hereditary character, and it was similar...
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Modernization in the Periphery: The Introduction of the Tractor in Chile, 1910–1935
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Claudio Robles-Ortiz Abstract This is the first study of the introduction of the tractor in a Latin American country before 1930. Challenging conventional views on agricultural mechanization in Chile, the article shows that a progressive sector of upper-class landowners and state experts introduced...
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African Americans and Land Loss in Texas: Government Duplicity and Discrimination Based on Race and Class
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 258–292.
Published: 01 April 2003
... for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmers had to negotiate racism in the Jim Crow South. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the state branch of the USDA’s Extension...
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The Corn King of Mexico in the United States: A South-North Technology Transfer
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 155–165.
Published: 01 April 2004
... landowner who turned his haciendas into private agricultural experiment stations, conducting research on better methods of growing corn, cotton, wheat, and beans with the labor of his peones. He shared his results through lecture tours and published works in Mexico and traveled extensively in the United...
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Revisiting Rural Poverty and Farm Policy in the Age of Roosevelt
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 362–370.
Published: 01 April 2021
... whether national farm programs should benefit larger, landowning, and more commercial farm operators or should aim to sustain large numbers of smaller farms and address the plight of the rural poor. These accounts, however, slight the increasingly influential arguments put forth by liberal economists...
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From Thrift to Improvement: Reimagining Agrarian Management in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Fitzherbert, Boke of Husbandry , fol. 46r. While Fitzherbert seems to differ between “husbandman” and “gentyl-man,” the advice given in the book was the same, implying that the readers he had in mind were substantial farmers with several servants and gentry landowners engaged in farm management. It also...
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The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla–Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 104–105.
Published: 01 January 2000
... years before the outbreak of a struggle in which foreign landowners would become key targets for agrarian reform. After the outbreak of violence, Evans lost her husband and their lands, emerged as a sympathetic icon for American and British audiences, and was ultimately assassinated. The narrative...
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False Gospels of Efficiency: Contested Knowledge, Determined Experts, and Unfaithful Lands in Rural Utah
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 342–378.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Bullen Jr. Papers, USUSCA. See also Board of Directors to Landowners of Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1, March 30, 1936, TD (photocopy), folder 10, box 11, Herschel Bullen Jr. Papers; “A List of Syndicate Lands, March 18, 1930,” TM and AD (photocopies), folder 10, box 11, Herschel Bullen...
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Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 January 2000
.... According to some historians, the new "stock laws" produced a revolutionary reshaping of southern life. They enhanced the property rights of larger landowners and commercial interests, diminished the economic and political standing of the less propertied, and were related to the rise of Populism...
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"Negro Thieves" or Enterprising Farmers?: Markets, the Law, and African American Community Regulation in Alabama, 1866–1877
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 19–38.
Published: 01 January 2000
..." system whereby banks granted planters credit for their cotton crops on the recommendation of an intermediary. When landowners could no longer use slaves as collat- eral for capital and the antebellum factor system broke down, local mer? chants?owners of "country stores"?moved to exploit the postbellum...
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Oh Freedom after Awhile: The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike of 1939
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and sharecropping had become prominent in the Bootheel, and with it came the stigma of de? pression, furnishing merchants, and crop liens. Then, under Roosevelt's New Deal sharecroppers were promised one-quarter of a landowner's AAA government payment. But, few, if any, sharecroppers reaped the benefits...
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Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside: An Insight into Post-Soviet Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 573–575.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of the population. The majority of Romanian exports were agricultural; with the country among the leaders in terms of wheat and corn export.Working conditions were almost feudal, with most fertile land belonging to several big landowners. Most of the peasants worked for these landowners and production was labor...
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British Game Shooting in Transition, 1900–1945
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 204–224.
Published: 01 April 2011
... Revolution ( London : Faber & Faber , 1952 ), 49 , 50 ; Correspondence of the 6th Lord Walsingham ( 1865–1912 ), WLS/LXV111/1-87, Norfolk Record Office , Norwich, UK ; Martin , Great Shoots , 117 . 11. Thompson , “Landowners,” 461 – 62 ; D. C. Itzkowitz , Peculiar...
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Ecological Agrarian: Agriculture’s First Evolution in 10,000 Years
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 April 2005
... entrepreneurs shift toward production methods that also benefit the environment. Grewell and Landry explore several different economic avenues where farmers, ranchers, and landowners employ ecologically friendly methods to varying degrees and success. "Green marketing," or the marketing of ecolog? ically...
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Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400–1640
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 July 2017
... to the fifteenth-century recession, path dependence on ecclesiastical estates in the sixteenth century, and the impact on particular groups namely great lay landowners, the gentry, noveau riches, church leaseholders, and the diverging experience of yeoman and smallholders. The conclusion engages with long-standing...
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Comment: Family Farms, Agricultural Policy, and Small-Farm Essentialism
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 971–978.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Wisconsin-Madison. His thirty-year career in Madison focused on the history and sociology of US agriculture, including teaching and research on Wisconsin and California dairying, farmland tenure, African-American farmers and rural landowners, and agricultural policy. He served as president of the Rural...
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