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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 271–273.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Learotha Williams Jr. And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865–1928 . By Michelle M. Mears . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2009 . 256 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-654-3 . © the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 405–418.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Bob Faust Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 "Echoes of Change in the Old Order of Things at Bonne Terre," News (Farmington, Mo.) 31 October1913 2 "St. Francois County’s Great Deposits of Lead," News , 18 January1901 3 "The Benevolent St. Joe...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 293–324.
Published: 01 April 2003
... citizen-villagers. From the heirs’ point of view, the subsequent American system of adjudicating ownership of these traditional properties proved inadequate, leading to the loss of two-thirds of their commons to American land speculators and the U. S. National Forest. Like the Native Americans, the heirs...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Terry S. Reynolds Abstract Between 1895 and 1915 Cleveland-Cliffs, one of America’s leading iron mining companies, became deeply involved in promoting agricultural development on Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula. Its two-decade-long attempt to identify appropriate plants and farming practices...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 436–460.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Allan G. Bogue Abstract Paul Wallace Gates was the leading American historian of the public domain during the latter half of the twentieth century and James C. Malin’s ecological approach to the history and environment of the North American grasslands brought important new perspectives to those...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 366–392.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Grosso offer valuable lessons for understanding the application of modernization technologies to diverse ecosystems; such knowledge can lead to a more sustainable approach to meat production. RanchingModernization inTropical Brazil: Foreign Investmentand EnvironmentinMato Grosso, 1900-1950 ROBERT W...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
... efforts to almost exclusively support arsenic and lead-based chemical insecticides as the most commercially viable form of insect control. While Howard in no way "caused" the national turn to chemicals, this article charts the pivotal role he played in fostering that outcome. "TheHorizonOpened Up...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 143–173.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Piraífrom other coffee-producing areas that suffered from ecological devastation. By 1900 the land’s loss of fertility precluded further plantation agriculture in Barra do Pir aí, leading to the transition from lucrative coffee cultivation to dairy farming based on meager capital inputs. Compared...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 511–544.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Taylor Spence Abstract This research demonstrates how a European plant, Cirsium arvense , common to North America since the sixteenth century and commonly considered a weed, became “Canadian” when Early National Americans labeled it the Canada thistle in the years leading up to the War of 1812...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 580–593.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Cheryl Tevis Abstract In 1979 the author of this article was hired to write for Successful Farming , a national magazine founded in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1902. This led to a privileged, front-row-seat perspective on the lead-up to the 1980s Farm Crisis, the depth of the financial turmoil, and its...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 414–447.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Helen Anne Curry Abstract The organization of sweet potato research across global regions began in earnest in the 1980s. Leading international institutions, notably the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, recognized the potential for science-driven development of a “neglected...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 18–51.
Published: 01 February 2025
... the nation's attention in 1933, the question was no longer whether the federal government would act to control erosion but who would lead the effort. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 The Agricultural History Society 2025 soil conservation soil erosion Dust Bowl drainage roadbuilding...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 193–219.
Published: 01 April 2008
... the service toward policies of racial justice; however, extension leadership continued to move slowly on fundamental transformation. As a result, the adjustments did not lead to a fundamental re-thinking of race policy in the service and ultimately contributed to the disappearance of the African-American...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Sandra Kiesow Abstract The small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe was one of the world’s leading producers of cocoa beans in the early twentieth century. The tropical climate, the abundant precipitation, and the fertile volcanic soils of the islands contributed to a rapid development of cocoa...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 205–223.
Published: 01 April 2020
... constraints to forge a profitable regional marketing regime centered on the production of fall apples that operated within the larger seasonal ebb and flow of the great Western and Northwestern orchard districts. On October 1, 1912, the evening trolley between Deadwood and Lead, South Dakota, was running late...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 369–371.
Published: 01 July 2004
... of Discovery were not even the first to snatch a canoe. French explorer Jean-Benard de la Harpe stole one from the Quapaws eighty years before and nearly lost his life for it. Slaughter's essays and the current obsession with the Corps of Discovery can lead, hopefully will lead, to new scholarship on other...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., would augment overall human health and lead to race betterment. The idea that scientifically and technologically driven evolution would lead to human progress motivated many of the scientists and food producers Haushofer profiles. Nature, on its own, was flawed and needed to be enhanced. Haushofer's...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 373–374.
Published: 01 July 2004
..., Nebraska, and South Dakota. The authors use transactions cost to explain ownership patterns among farmers for equipment, buildings, land, and other large assets. The authors posit "seasonality and timeliness costs" as the leading forces that support the existence of farms as family operations. Only when...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 368–369.
Published: 01 July 2004
... and others, it is not always clear whom Slaughter is criticizing. Most times it is the journal editors, but often the vague race of "histori? ans" stands accused. One can only wonder if James Ronda was included among the historians. Although Ronda is one of the leading scholars of the expedition, especially...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 211–226.
Published: 01 April 2000
... prosperity. The central role of the business corporation in generating economic de? velopment might lead one to believe that government is not an important actor in making the social commitment to organizational learning. At best, one might argue, the role of government is to provide infrastructure...
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