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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 34–49.
Published: 01 January 2004
...John J. Fry Abstract Between 1895 and 1920 technological, economic, demographic, and cultural changes transformed American rural life. This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume that they expressed the farmer’s point of view. Because most...
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Published: 01 February 2023
figure 8. The 1903 harvest. Newspapers indicate in this year, thirty thousand harvest hands were employed in Kansas, perhaps seventeen thousand in the Northwest, and twenty thousand more in Manitoba, Canada. Map by author. More
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Published: 01 February 2023
figure 9. The 1904 harvest. Newspapers indicate in this year, twenty thousand harvest hands were employed in Kansas, perhaps as many as forty thousand in the Northwest, and fifteen thousand more in Manitoba, Canada. Map by author. More
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 311–337.
Published: 01 July 2016
... to the professionalization of veterinary medicine. Using Tennessee in the nineteenth century as a case study, this paper examines the corpus of popular knowledge on the identification and treatment of horse ailments available to lay people in printed sources, focusing primarily on newspapers and to a lesser extent on patent...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
...figure 8. The 1903 harvest. Newspapers indicate in this year, thirty thousand harvest hands were employed in Kansas, perhaps seventeen thousand in the Northwest, and twenty thousand more in Manitoba, Canada. Map by author. ...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 174–200.
Published: 01 April 2009
... to convey these limits adequately in newspaper articles and subsequent reports allowed for their work to be used by agricultural boosters throughout the region. The result was a cycle of erosion, fire, and farm abandonment that proved to be a political problem in Michigan for the first three decades...
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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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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 312–335.
Published: 01 July 2006
... the chain of events, the story of these adoptions equally reflects the influence of human and social factors upon the pattern of agricultural change. Individuals and newspapers were more integral to the process of investigating the uses of Chewings fescue and paspalum than departments and government reports...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Francis K. Danquah Abstract Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia placed enormous stocks of the region’s industrial crops under Japanese control. English language Japanese newspaper reports from the Philippines suggest that the invaders grossly under-utilized this vast storehouse of agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 461–463.
Published: 01 July 2017
... intimidated, raped, tortured, and killed African Americans and the disembodied Klan, the idea of the organization that filled northern newspaper reports. She argues that despite racial violence throughout the South following the Civil War, the first Klan was a lone organization, and for the first year...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 112–113.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... Culling cartoons out of dozens of People s Party newspapers and other publications and using graphics software to clean up the images, Miller presents over one hundred forty of these primary documents. It is the largest such collection ever assembled. The cartoons themselves are fascinating...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Press, 2014. 288 pp., $35.00, hardback, iSBn 978-0-226-12875-7. it is commonplace today to open a newspaper or magazine and find journalists lamenting how divorced americans are from their food sources, how children believe that food originates in supermarkets rather than on farms, and how social...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... Culling cartoons out of dozens of People s Party newspapers and other publications and using graphics software to clean up the images, Miller presents over one hundred forty of these primary documents. It is the largest such collection ever assembled. The cartoons themselves are fascinating...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 498–500.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and moral fabric intact despite half a century of civil war, semi-colonialism, and the collapse of the Chinese imperial system in 1912. One of the highlights of Fuller s research is his use of over fifty weekly and daily local Chinese newspapers and periodicals. Many of these periodicals have rarely...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 337–365.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Goddard, "The Development and Influence of Agricultural Periodicals and Newspapers, 1780-1880," Agricultural History Review 31:2 (1983): 118-19. 2 Nicholas Goddard, "Agricultural Institutions: Societies, Associations and the Press," in The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. 7 (1850-1914), ed...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 553–555.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., and hoped-for popularization never materialized (105). Instead, the society s most tangible impact was its newspaper, which created a networked public in which the democratizing potential of mass communication collided with elite ideas about scientific knowledge, agency, and capacity. The newspaper s...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Carolina Pee Dee. The impetus for growing bright leaf tobacco was provided by farmer Frank M. Rogers, the advocacy of the state's largest newspaper, the Charleston News and Courier, and the South Carolina Department of Agriculture. Within a decade the production of bright leaf was flourishing as were...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and the World War I era. During this period, nativism was on the rise at the same time support for women s suffrage increased. Particularly in the first three chapters, the research convincingly reminds us of the richness of local newspapers as sources on social networks, politics, and reform. Along with church...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 622–623.
Published: 01 October 2003
... the internal conversations within the county in newspapers and other local literature, salted with the sagacious use of interviews. By taking a longer view of these patterns of debate and setting them in a national context, the author helps readers see the forest as well as the trees?at least until...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 January 2004
... carefully read signif? icant newspapers and manuscript collections. This approach provides an insider's account of farm groups opposed to the New Deal, and while this close look at the organizations makes for a good read, it gives little new informa? tion about why so much opposition produced so little...