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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 374–376.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Nicholas J. P. Williams Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in America . By A. R. Ruis . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 220 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-81358407-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 374 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 263–264.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Craig Gerlach Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality . Gary Holthaus . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews But evenfromherperspectiveo,ne majorpointis missingR. ecognizing thatscienceis...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 262–263.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Dona Brown Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America . Edited by Laura Sayre and Sean Clark . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2011 . 378 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3374-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 413–414.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Lee Zook Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms . Randy James . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews NOTE 1. Elwyn B. Robinson, "The Themes ofNorthDakota History," inThe Centennial Anthologyof "NorthDakota History,Journalof...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Thomas G. Alexander Brigham Young University Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South. By Lu Ann Jones. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 250 pp., $49.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8078-2716-9; $19.95, paperback, ISBN 0-80785384-4. Reflecting the growing interest in rural southern...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 638–642.
Published: 01 November 2023
... sustainable consumption through experiential learning in Colonia, Uruguay. However, the approaches could be translated to a variety of settings by maintaining an emphasis on collaboration with community partners on a range of hands-on, sustainable production-oriented projects. These experiences, whether...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
Published: 01 July 2020
... was a learning process for Chilean agriculturalists. The first “mammoth” steam tractors proved unsuitable for Chile’s farming practices, but, as US manufacturers produced more efficient models and local distributors successfully marketed them, landowners learned about their advantages. In the 1920s they adopted...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 159–181.
Published: 01 April 2007
... and gain sympathy from outsiders. The failure of government officials to support Gómez de la Torre exposed significant cracks in the ruling structures, which Indigenous workers learned to exploit. These conflicts reveal that the Ecuadorian government was not as hegemonic as is sometimes assumed...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2009
... appeared on new breaking because it could be planted later and transported further without upsetting the balance of other activities and without farmers learning many new techniques. Scientists discovered that diseased soil drove flax off old land, not soil exhaustion. Circumventing the disease...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 633–658.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the wartime combination of an agricultural preoccupation with worker mobility and the carceral preoccupation with making immobile prisoners productive. By focusing on how the Hellwigs configured their landscape before, during, and after World War II, this article demonstrates that farmers learned to control...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 438–465.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Victor W. Geraci Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, California wineries entered a new vinti-business (vertical integration of grape farming, wine production, and wine distribution) era based on the needs of a global wine economy by adapting historic survival lessons learned from...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of rural women who have successfully worked with formerly silenced populations and urges historians to continue to tell stories about these lives, to reevaluate what has been already learned, to ask new questions, and to discuss which secrets need to be shared. © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 174–194.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Jeffrey Filipiak Abstract When Wendell Berry and others criticize contemporary agriculture, their arguments are often dismissed as naïve and grounded in longstanding agrarian myth, rather than engagement with contemporary problems. But Berry's proposals developed in response to a series of learning...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 381–406.
Published: 01 July 2007
... they learned to exploit its distinctive natural resources more intensively. This transformation is better understood as a process of agricultural adaptation than as an episode in environmental degradation. Notes 1 Robert Sandford, "A Relation of a Voyage on the Coast of the Province of Carolina, 1666...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 656–661.
Published: 01 November 2023
...,” as dubbed by historian James C. Cobb, the Mississippi Delta offers an excellent case study for a high-impact, service-learning, credit-earning travel course. 2 This article will discuss the rationale, design, and goals of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional course on the Mississippi Delta...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 316–317.
Published: 01 April 2015
... by asking what can we expect the settlers to have known, and what and how fast did they learn? By adopting a relational human-environment perspective, he steps beyond an account of settlers lives to address manager engagement with farm environments. He analyzes diaries and letterbooks from fifty estates...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 649–655.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Appalachian State University students visit the park because it is a popular hiking destination, yet few have probably given much thought to signs along the trails that warn visitors of contaminated soils. They soon learn that like other sizable agricultural operations in the early twentieth century...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 610–615.
Published: 01 November 2023
... name a few, are key ingredients in understanding numerous parts of our individual and collective pasts. As a result, the venues of learning can be just as diverse as the topics' influential reach. Many of the stories we tell in our university survey classes, highly specialized graduate courses...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 662–666.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the importance of storytelling in our work, we must center the narrative form as a foundational component of teaching and learning. For those invested in preserving and promoting agricultural and environmental history in the classroom, narrative-based podcasting can be a powerful tool. Unlike traditional...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 211–226.
Published: 01 April 2000
... 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, such as a public education, but leave the commitment to making innovative in? vestments in organizational learning to business...
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