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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 404–428.
Published: 01 July 2018
... 49 (Sept. 1962 ): 245 – 50 ; Analyticus [ James Waterman Wise ], Jews are Like That! ( New York : Brentano’s , 1928 ), 166 – 67 ; W. A. Mackintosh , “The Canadian Wheat Pools,” Queen’s Quarterly 33 (Dec. 1925 ): 138 . 10. Analyticus , Jews are Like That! , 168...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 453–481.
Published: 01 July 2003
... challenges. Like Aldrich, historians contest the region’s stultifying and monolithic image to bring to light the wide variety of meaningful and important gendered and cross-cultural experiences. Although the region is often difficult to interpret in all of its complexity, contradictions, and variations...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 January 2020
... (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981). 9. David S. Jacks, “From Boom to Bust: A Typology of Real Commodity Prices in the Long Run,” Cliometrica 13, no. 2 (2019): 201-220. Featured Review Seeing Like a Supply Chain Tim Paulson University of British Columbia, Okanagan Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Anatolia. Some Like It Hot: Mediterranean Societies at the End of the Little Ice Age ANDREA E. DUFFY This article explores human responses to the climatic conditions of the late Little Ice Age (1850 1880s) in the Mediterranean world. Around the globe, the nineteenth century heralded the retreat...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
.... 1–2, GSVA. 43 Anson, "Story of Lettuce is the Story of Huge Salinas Valley Development." "Like Ribbons Industrializing in the Salinas of Green and Gold": Lettuce and the Quest Valley, 1920-1965 for Quality GABRIELLA M. PETRICK The development of large-scale lettuce production...
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in Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2023
figure 5. Game breeding attracted interest from sporting good suppliers like Abercrombie and Fitch, who touted wildlife propagation as good business in addition to sensible conservation. Advertisement, Game Breeder , April 1912, 31.
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in Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2023
figure 10. The USFWS still feeds elk through the winter at refuges like this one near Jackson Hole, Wyoming (photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016). Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress.
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 6. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and railroads revolved around higher costs associated with refrigerated cars like the one seen here. But the near monopoly of refrigerator cars held by companies like Armour & Co. of meat-packing fame left
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 414–443.
Published: 01 July 2021
... way not only to produce pork, but also grease, a garbage by-product sold to soap makers. The growth of Secaucus’ swine farms began after nuisance trades like piggeries and bone-boiling plants were exiled from Manhattan in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1890s a German-dominated swill trade...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 23–40.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Evan P. Bennett Abstract In 1994 the Virginia legislature created a vehicle license plate to memorialize the state's long history of tobacco agriculture. Other states have likewise created plates to allow drivers to voice support for farmers. Like Virginia's “Tobacco Heritage” plate, many use...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 36–68.
Published: 01 January 2021
... to translate the tenets of agricultural reform into plantation practice particularly significant. The piece shows that technologies of capitalism, like the account books, worked to unintentionally enforce the violence and capriciousness of informal calculation rather than producing a slavery-based predecessor...
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of supporting industries like canning factories to use less marketable produce. The “very cheap” labor was a major component in attracting investment in the fruit industry. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 553–579.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and prolonged financial crisis that accelerated the trends of further consolidation and industrialization of farming and the food system. Much like the Great Depression of the 1930s, the landscape of rural Iowa bears the scars of the 1980s Farm Crisis that has forever changed the economy and culture of rural...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... War wheat narrative away from staples like bread to confectionary products made with soft white flour. Japanese buyers and consumers purchased soft white wheat not to feed the hungry but instead to serve a growing market for cakes and other confectionary products. This relationship helps understand...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
... schools, which were run by female home economists and designed for a female audience. This article examines an appliance school organized for one REA women's club and the efforts of officials like REA chief home electrification specialist Clara O. Nale to navigate the disconnect between the official REA...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in Jamaica. By the mid-1920s Panama disease had reached large banana plantations as well, and many planters, like smallholders a decade prior, responded by turning their plantations into sugar, rather than banana, monocultures. By the end of World War II, as a result of Panama disease, along...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2014
... documents (workers, children), and they convey the nature of experiences hard to capture in conventional source material (what it was like to work in various environments). Buildings can occasionally tell a story without reference to other sources, but more often they are integrated with other source types...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 591–605.
Published: 01 October 2014
... a strategic move for political activists like woman suffragists. In the American Midwest, vast spaces and difficult travel conditions hindered frequent face-to-face conversations, and advocates for woman suffrage recognized the power of paper as an inexpensive means to reach isolated rural voters. An analysis...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., but the results can provide an array of research findings that likely would not be captured through use of traditional resources. © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014 NOTES 1. Debra A. Reid , “Tangible Agricultural History: An Artifact's-Eye View of the Field,” Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
... an alfalfa boom on the American plains, especially in northern regions like South Dakota where Hansen worked. However, the effects of the growth of alfalfa were not limited to the Dakotas; they were also connected to and influenced another boom in the American Southwest. Moreover, in order to plant new...
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