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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 414–443.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... An Animal Machine : Secaucus Garbage Feeders and the Rise and Fall of Pork Production in New Jersey, 1880 1960 TINA PEABODY This article traces the rise and fall of garbage feeding on swine farms in Secaucus, New Jersey. Between the late nineteenth century and the 1950s, Secaucus swine farmers fed...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 247–248.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Justin Roberts The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica . By Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4829-6 . © 2017 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Nicholas Buchanan The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology . Carroll Pursell . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter horrificmine disasters, and the important rolewomen played insupportingmin ers.The appendices include accounts...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Robert Tracy McKenzie Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America . Angela Lakwete . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 376 / Agricultural History evangelicals need further analysis, for one wonders how it was that they had so much cultural authority...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 133.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Brady Banta Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South . George Ellenberg . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews MuleSouthtoTractorSouth:Mules,Machinesa,nd theTransformatiofnthe CottonSouth.By GeorgeEllenbergT...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 263–264.
Published: 01 April 2009
...George B. Ellenberg The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century . Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews renderedobsolescenta modelofeconomicorganizationthathadservedthe familywellformorethana hundredyears...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 473–501.
Published: 01 October 2013
... of intensification. By focusing on the public debate surrounding the publication of Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964), this article seeks to better understand the impact of the book by exploring the context in which it was published, the extent and nature of reporting in connection with it, and its reception...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter B. Lavelle Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, China experienced agricultural and ecological crises of increasing frequency and severity. This article shows how these crises fostered discussion among Chinese elites about the value of steam-powered machines for agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
...J. L. Anderson Abstract American farmers of the postwar period reduced labor requirements for production through the use of new machines and chemicals. Farm work was increasingly managerial and less physical. Observers struggled with how to represent this businesslike and technocratic farmer, first...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Daniel Ott Abstract During the 1880s and 1890s the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company created a brand based upon Cyrus H. McCormick's supposed invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831. The company's “prestige of priority” functioned to break the industry price-slashing deadlock of the “reaper...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 659–689.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and crime to pen pigs and dispossess poor immigrant “swill women” of a means of reproduction. In the early twentieth century, officials championed pigs as living machines that turned garbage into pork, as long as they were spatially separated from the city and managed by professionalized men. Following pigs...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 351–379.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... Drawing on the archives of family-owned factories, invention patents, government documents, and oral histories of the men and women who used and designed domestic farm machinery, this article shows the importance of Argentine machine makers as innovational tinkerers and designers. © 2018 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 669–688.
Published: 01 October 2002
... threshing machines in the barnyard. There family members and neighbors gathered to feed the threshing machine, scoop the grain from wagons into the bins and granaries, and stack the straw for use throughout the following year. Between 1940 and 1960, most Iowa farmers turned to combines for harvesting...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 530–544.
Published: 01 April 2000
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, "Husking By Machine," Wallaces’ Farmer , 4 September1925, 10 I. W.
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, "Speeding Up Husking," Wallaces’Farmer , 28 September1928, 10 15 Charles, "Speeding Up Corn Picking," 9. 16 Wallaces’ Farmer , 9 August1929, 9 Allan G. Bogue, "Changes in Mechanical and Plant...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 272–292.
Published: 01 April 2000
... October 1944, before a crowd of twenty-five hundred people, Howell Hopson of Clarksdale, Mississippi, used seven International Har? vester cotton-picking machines to gather one thousand pounds of cotton per hour, five hundred times more than the drivers could have picked with their bare hands. Instead...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 279–281.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 2022 Sulphuric Utopias is a rich and multidimensional history of technological efforts to control diseases of commerce during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cowritten by a historian of medicine and a medical anthropologist, the book examines how fumigation machines...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 91–127.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., a tendency that these observers had detected in their own country since the mid-nineteenth century. 41 With one eye turned toward America and the other toward Europe, an engineer and inventor of motorized agricultural machines, Konrad von Meyenburg, wrote in 1909 that the “industrialization of agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 125–127.
Published: 01 January 2015
...; it can be seen as humanized nature and should not be taken as ontologically distinct from it. Industrialization entails that self-acting machines, regulated and monitored by humans, convert the forces of nature into forces of production. Marx referred to machines as mechanical monsters with organs...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 530–532.
Published: 01 October 2001
..., NorwegianAmericans Arthur and Douglas Rongen had shifted to tractor-powered haying equipment and had replaced loose hay with small bales. The passing of the workhorse seemed at the time to represent the ultimate achievement of technology. But as Larry Hoffbeck found in the 1970s and early 1980s, new machines did...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 336–353.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the Earth , 19 , 25 ; Henry G. Finlayson , “Threefold Conservatism: I—Nature,” NEW , Mar. 25 , 1937 , 468 , 486 . Other contributors attacked machines, see, for example, Archie Binns , “On Record,” NEW , Sept. 27 , 1934 , 463 ; T. Kerr Ritchie , “The World of Machines...
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