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... that these rural carpenters and master builders did not labor in rural obscurity, 544 Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture . Gary Holthaus . ...

...,lasnthdorseelsitgoioruiescswhaenll-get,ahsewdaeullgahsttehroefpaecrosmistmenucnoeiftfycouultnudrearl wholearnedhowtousetheAmericanlegalsystemtoheradvantaget;hewealth 554 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get it Back . Ann...

... . 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...

...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...

... on federalism, a theory as old as the Constitution, to justify their tolerance of civil rights violations in Texas and elsewhere. Then, special needs legislation passed during the 1970s and 1980s did not realize its potential to serve ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged rural Texans...

...Cameron L. Saffell Abstract In an introduction to papers from the 2003 Agricultural History Society (AHS) symposium, the author discusses the need for international exchange and contributions to the scholarship of a cross-border region that some scholars call the "Greater Southwest." Monographs...

... 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...

... 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...

... of burning have felt little need to provide evidence to support their assertions. Critics of tussock burning claimed that it was a catalyst for mass erosion in the hills and mountains of Canterbury. In recent years, scientists have concluded that this was unlikely as much of the erosion predated European...

... in this article suggests the need to reconsider the story of the origins and early development of American agricultural extension work. Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Notes 1 Liberty Hyde Bailey , "Newer Ideas in Agricultural Education," Educational Review 20 ( Nov...

... need to devote more attention to the characteristics of slavery in anomalous areas that exist within broad staple-producing regions. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 2 Philip D. Morgan , Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake...

...Victor W. Geraci Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, California wineries entered a new vinti-business (vertical integration of grape farming, wine production, and wine distribution) era based on the needs of a global wine economy by adapting historic survival lessons learned from...

... customers, and new financial institutions, particularly Raiffeisen-type cooperatives, were founded in the 1890s and 1900s to better meet the credit needs of small farmers. These new cooperatives contributed to the growing political and economic integration of the peasantry into the Czech national life...

... and the organization of the industry. It expanded rapidly, not because of any natural advantage in soil or climate, but rather because it fit well with the needs of small, and often poor, farmers raising a variety of crops. It peaked during the 1920s and 1930s and faded a generation later. Canning largely disappeared...

...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...