...Leslie Duram Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get it Back . Ann Vileisis . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews and signedup simplybecause theysaw no alternativeand had nothingto lose (see,CraigMiner...

... . What We Need is a Crop Ecologist : Ecology and Agricultural Science in Progressive-Era America MARK D. HERSEY Though they are often seen as foils for each other, ecology and agricultural science co-evolved.With shared roots in late nineteenth-century botany, ecologists and agronomists fostered...

...Patricia Duffy From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture . Gary Holthaus . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews estly did its best to create prosperity and happiness for all" (124). Despite these initiatives, theGreat...

...Warren Belasco Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know . By Robert Paarlberg . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 218 pp., $16.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-19-538959-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews of historical causation requires...

... unsuited to the needs of small peasant farmers. This paper explores why such inappropriate technology might have been developed, focusing on the early years of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP). It shows that some foundation officers as well as agricultural advisors had prior...

... of which stories to tell publicly and which to keep private. The author discusses her own experience telling stories about rural women in the 1970s and the need to give voice to the heritage of rural women, especially of groups that have feared revealing their experiences. She offers examples of historians...

.... The article utilizes Rockefeller Foundation records to examine how disparate meanings of modernization manifested themselves in mundane conflicts. Seemingly petty squabbles among US development actors in Colombia reveal the contours of their distinct views of modernization and demonstrate the need for more...

...LISA R. LINDELL Abstract During the Great Depression, with conditions grim, entertainment scarce, and educational opportunities limited, many South Dakota farm women relied on reading to fill emotional, social, and informational needs. To read to any degree, these rural women had to overcome...

...Cherisse Jones-Branch Abstract Between 1909 and 1968, Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers, or “Jeanes supervisors,” provided much-needed guidance and assistance to impoverished rural black southern communities. Funded by an endowment left in 1907 by Pennsylvania Quaker Anna T. Jeanes to support...

.... 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...

...-cow” functioned as a much needed public relations ambassador for an industry in turmoil and as a highly gendered symbol of agrarian nostalgia at a time when new technologies upended traditional methods of dairy farming and revolutionized the consumer marketplace. Most celebrated among...

... to meet the needs of agriculture. When we analyze the diary as an artifact that is acquired, handled, transformed, and preserved, another page opens on rural life. © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Notes 1. The original 1884–1887 diary and copies of her other two diaries 1888–1892...

...Christine Fojtik Abstract After World War II, Western Allied and German agricultural experts largely agreed both on the desirability of reinvigorated industry and on the changes needed to maximize agricultural output in hungry occupied western Germany. Drawing on the reports and correspondence...

... with it, some even began designing their own machinery by the early twentieth century. By employing a use-centered approach based on David Edgerton’s Shock of the Old (2007), this article illustrates the specific farm technologies that Argentine farmers designed to suit their needs after adapting foreign models...

... reverse the trend of dependency by placing children with Americans of high esteem. Farmers, for their part, could expect labor from their placement children in exchange for care. The availability of dependent children filled an important farm labor need while attempting to satisfy the goals of reformers...

...Elizabeth Lamoree Abstract From the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the 1970s, American agricultural policy institutionalized growers' anti-union politics based on the unique characteristics of farming. California growers argued they needed access to a flexible and cheap labor supply...

.... Nonetheless, the gains they made suggest that this failure was not simply rooted in the backward and non-productive motivations of ranchers themselves. Instead, the limits of Colombian ranching also need to be understood in the context of the domestic market, the paucity of state assistance...

... slave management methods or that more coercion was needed for success. © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Notes 1. This work draws on a larger project with Paul W. Rhode . Paul has worked with me in developing many of the ideas presented here, and he has commented on several drafts...

... that historians need to take account of such crises to understand the roots of industrialization in China. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Notes 1. Feng Guifen, Jiaobinlu kangyi (Mindetang, 1892), 93a. For summaries of Feng’s biography and ideas, see Arthur Hummel, ed., Eminent Chinese...

... farmers needed to lift the enormous volumes of water necessary for industrial agriculture on the High Plains. Farmers made decisions based on water, but those decisions were fundamentally structured by energy. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 NOTES 1. Deborah Fitzgerald, Every Farm...