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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 562–563.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790 1920. by Saurabh mishra. manchester: manchester university Press, 2015. 208 pp., £70.00, hardback, iSbn 978-0-7190-8972-5. Quite often studies of plant and animal worlds can become mired in examining organizational...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 303–304.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Louise C. Wade Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 America’s Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels . J’Nell Pate . 2007 Book Reviews Independence international community. Chapter six tries to establish the origin of accelerated soil erosion by evaluating and integrating...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 419–420.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Robert Evenson Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia . Peter Boomgaard and David Henley . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews will prove eye-opening to any reader unfamiliar with thisgreat...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 312–314.
Published: 01 April 2020
... connections and conclusions that are well supported by her research. Sarah Wassberg Johnson Independent Scholar Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends. By Erin McKenna. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. 264 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-82035191-9. In Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends, Erin...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Lisa Cox © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine . Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 556–557.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Andrew Sluyter New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People . By William W. Dunmire . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . 272 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5089-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 January 2001
...William D. Rowley The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity . Debra L. Donahue . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 126 / Agricultural History supplying the context in which to understand the farm policy debate...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 230–246.
Published: 01 April 2016
... attaining knowledge of livestock disease ecology in the region was rather conducive to British expertise, livestock marketing proved otherwise. Farmers' practices may have, at times, informed colonial agricultural practice in Africa, but this repositioning of authority did not extend to matters of local...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 447–448.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Matthew M. Stith Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869 . By Diana L. Ahmed . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 144 pp., $31.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-87417-997-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 2018
.... Theunissen , “Breeding for Nobility or for Production?,” 292 – 98 . 99. Ibid. , 285 – 86 . 100. J. D. van der Ploeg , De virtuele boer ( Assen : van Gorcum , 2000 ), 260 – 65 . The Transformation of the Dutch Farm Horse into a Riding Horse: Livestock Breeding, Science...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jayson Otto [email protected] Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination . By Kathryn Cornell Dolan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 324 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781496218643 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 580–609.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that positions toward heredity were simultaneously produced in both fields. Rosenberg establishes the shared views of purebred livestock breeders and eugenicists through an analysis of material generated by individuals with conjoined purebred and eugenic concerns. 5 Much of his research was based...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 313–315.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into practice as merely modernization. The book looks at the interface between science and practice in the breeding of farm animals, with a special focus on Dutch livestock breeding. The number of species dealt with is unusual, covering cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, and horses, and such wide coverage allows...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 710–712.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Michael Weeks [email protected] Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition . By Neal A. Knapp . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2023 . 216 pp., $60.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781421446554 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 176–194.
Published: 01 April 2010
...ERNESTO CLAR Abstract The development of intensive livestock farming in Western Europe after 1950 has been somewhat overlooked by historians, except in a number of macroeconomic works. This process has generally been understood as the application of the American agribusiness model to the European...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 166–190.
Published: 01 April 2004
..., agriculture, and livestock grazing, were established in the middle Rio Puerco valley, northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Within a decade, overgrazing in the larger Rio Puerco watershed initiated a process of erosion and entrenchment of the Rio Puerco that eventually led to the abandonment of three...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 74–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... Each center’s agricultural program included produce for human consumption, feed crops, and livestock. Some centers also grew seed, ornamental, and war crops. Evacuees raised and consumed five types of livestock and sixty-one produce varieties, including many traditional foods. Seasonal surpluses were...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 659–689.
Published: 01 October 2021
... helped shape racialized strategies of exclusion, justifying Indigenous dispossession and new property regimes while also posing material threats to colonizers. Nineteenth-century government-led commodification of waste and regulation of livestock and their owners mobilized dirty pigs and fears of disease...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the soil had been depleted, the old field was abandoned for as long as twenty years. Environmental factors such as poor soils, rugged topography, and livestock diseases accounted for the persistence of this practice, more so than slavery or the availability of western lands. Shifting cultivation slowly...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2020
... opportunities were limited, many turned to raising foxes. The fox is typically a wild animal and cares for itself when left in its natural habitat. In captivity, however, it required more attention. Farmers treated a wild animal like livestock and faced a range of challenges they needed to overcome if profiting...