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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 January 2020
... presents the book with its greatest strength the recognition and acknowledgement that agrarian uprisings such as that which occurred in Chihuahua in 1965 never emerge out of a vacuum. Marc Becker Truman State University The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Gabriella Santangelo Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780 . By Craig Muldrew . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 376 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-88185-2 . © the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 565–566.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... In this, Koosed s Gleaning Ruth has truly succeeded. Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan Baylor University Global Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, and Kenneth Hermele. New York: Routledge, 2012. 312 pp., $49.95, paperback...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 591–605.
Published: 01 October 2014
... focused on the material culture of the thousands of pamphlets, leaflets, and flyers used by suffragists exposes the practical decisions that shaped political campaign strategies. It also reveals that suffrage activists placed tremendous importance on propaganda; they planned their political campaigns...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Cameron L. Saffell Abstract This article continues a series about material culture studies and analysis in agricultural history research. Farm implements and machinery collections, even without extensive documentation of their farmer-owners, are wealthy sources of information that bring tangible...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 237–242.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Mark D. Hersey mhersey@history.msstate.edu Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022 A gricultural history has always had a somewhat complicated relationship with materiality, one that is likely to shape its reception of the New Materialism. On the one hand, it has...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 293–294.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., the book may be a useful tool for social and economic historians, who, because of their relative lack of acquaintance with archaeology of landscape, tend to be preoccupied exclusively with textual data. But documents cannot be divorced from excavated objects and other forms of material evidence. The more...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 248–252.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (1927–37) of Agricultural History finds authors addressing topics like cattle breeds, copper-based fungicides, grain elevators, grain drills, long-distance plant introductions, grasshopper plagues, and Hugh Nicol's 1936 gem titled “The Two Ends of Straw”—how much more material can one get? My...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 225–230.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and this somewhat rigid approach worked for a while. But by the second half of the three-hour seminar, the conversation was bogging badly. Finally, visibly frustrated even behind her COVID mask, one student bravely said what many others were probably thinking. “Well, isn't everything just a mix of the material...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 253–258.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as environmentally friendly owing to its compatibility with conservation tillage and its relatively short persistence in soil after application, the material realities of glyphosate's environmental impacts have become increasingly visible in recent years. The emergence of glyphosate-resistant “superweeds...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 57–76.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Debra A. Reid Abstract Scholars who incorporate objects into their research have their fingers closer to the pulse of the historic subjects of their studies than do those scholars who rely on only one type of data. But taking full advantage of the treasure trove of material culture requires...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 October 2009
... multiple obstacles. Extensive reading (whether books, farm journals, or newspapers) was limited to those who had access to publications and could make time to read. The South Dakota Free Library Commission was valuable in circulating reading materials to the state’s rural population. In the 1930s...
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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 5. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fact overlooked by railroad leaders, who justified high freight rates by saying that growers' promises of increased production “did not materialize.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 358–370.
Published: 01 July 2015
...James C. Giesen; Anne E. Marshall Abstract Statues, monuments, and other public memorials have long been a rich vein of source material for historians studying a variety of issues, from politics and race to war and economics. However, few agricultural historians have utilized these displays...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 311–337.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the horse remedies reported in the newspapers and other printed materials shows a close correspondence between the materia medica and therapeutic modalities used for treating humans with those used for treating horses. The paper also considers folk remedies for horse ailments and folk healers known...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
... may not know it, the critical raw material Monsanto uses to make Roundup an effective herbicide is elemental phosphorus, which comes from a processing plant in southeast Idaho that remains an operating Superfund site to this day. In the years ahead, scholars may well demonstrate a clear...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 608–635.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... With the Great Depression came new discussions about the relationship between food health and poverty. Providing healthy food for those most in need became a question of poor relief and social equity. Bread became one of the central food commodities in these discussions because bread carried both material...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 477–502.
Published: 01 October 2009
... transformed a women’s auxiliary into a female-led commodity organization. Initially, members participated in appropriately ’’ feminine" activities including Pork Queen contests, lard-baking contests, consultations with high school home economics instructors, and the distribution of promotional materials...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 182–203.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., questions, and conclusions contained within recent US history. While consumer agency looms large in many works, consumer studies also explore the influence of structural economics, material goods, and institutions that shaped consumer behavior. Moreover, distinct periodization is important in recognizing...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 381–406.
Published: 01 July 2007
... the land’s capacity for market agriculture. Slaves cleared land of its wood to prepare the terrain for planting, provide Britain’s empire with vital commodities, and build the infrastructure of daily material life in the region. As colonists and slaves came into sustained engagement with this landscape...
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