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The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2015
...B. R. Cohen © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability . By Hugh S. Gorman . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2013 . 260 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-5438-9...
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Nitrogen Nation: The Legacy of World War I and the Politics of Chemical Agriculture in the United States, 1916–1933
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
... manufacturers. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. S. C. Lind , “The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory,” Scientific Monthly 22 ( Feb. 1926 ): 169 . 2. Many scholars have emphasized the ways that warfare spurred technological change, especially under the aegis...
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Farming with Petroleum: The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry's Malthusian Bargain
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Michael E. Staub Abstract This article recovers and analyzes the sophisticated corporate response to environmentalist concerns already in the 1960s about the radical disruption of the nitrogen cycle that governs life on the planet caused by intensified application of chemical fertilizers. In 1971...
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Fertilization Practices in Pacific Northwest Wheat-Producing Areas
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 433–450.
Published: 01 April 2000
... generations of farm families had sapped the soil's residual nutrients and organic matter. The most obvious deficiency was the need for supplemental nitrogen, a need growers tried and failed to meet by growing peas as a "green manure" crop after 1930. Shortages of phosphorous, a less-mobile element...
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 383–384.
Published: 01 July 2005
... agricultural ex? pansion onto marginal lands, leading to greater greenhouse emissions and soil degradation; and (because of inherent inefficiencies in nitrogen recovery by plants) has led to an unbalanced enrichment of natural ecosystems by nitrogen. It is an odd book given the title. History and society would...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Joshua Frens-String Abstract This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural...
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The Paradox of Plows and Productivity: An Agronomic Comparison of Cereal Grain Production under Iroquois Hoe Culture and European Plow Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 460–492.
Published: 01 October 2011
... of World Agriculture , 282 . 10. Ibid., 60 . 11. Brady and Weil , Nature and Property , 520 ; Magdoff and Van Es , Building Soils , 173 – 79 . 12. G. P. H. Chorley , “The Agricultural Revolution in Northern Europe, 1750–1880: Nitrogen, Legumes, and Crop Productivity...
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The Furrow and Us: Essays on Soil and Sentiment
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 April 2008
... freelywith laboratory based science. One is struck by theway different people take the agreed upon elements of soil properties and reach very different conclusions as to how best to culture the plant. Jack predates many sustainable agriculture advocates inhis opposition to synthetic forms of nitrogen, many...
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2004 Agricultural History Society Awards
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 478–484.
Published: 01 October 2005
... transference of nitrogen from air to soil and back again. Nitrogen is the element most likely to limit plant growth. Farmers divert nitrogen toward crops they grow for human purposes. Pioneer Kansas farming was a soil mining operation. In the five decades after sod-breaking, plowed soils lost half...
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Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and the Americans, 1840 – 1888 ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1975 ); Edward D. Melillo , “The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade, 1840–1930,” American Historical Review 117 ( Oct. 2012 ): 1028 – 60 ; Nathalie Jas , Au carrefour de la...
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Beauty and Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 381–383.
Published: 01 July 2005
.... Likewise, the Haber-Bosch process facilitated world munitions production; encouraged agricultural ex? pansion onto marginal lands, leading to greater greenhouse emissions and soil degradation; and (because of inherent inefficiencies in nitrogen recovery by plants) has led to an unbalanced enrichment...
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Soil and Southern History
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 723–758.
Published: 01 October 2000
... ninety-five percent of the dry matter in plants is composed of carbon, oxy- gen, and hydrogen. Plants take in carbon from the air and oxygen and hy- drogen from water at the root surface. Nitrogen is universally available, and plants have access to about twenty pounds per acre per year of nitrogen...
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The Sustainability Crisis . . . Again
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 271–274.
Published: 01 May 2022
... enters ditches and streams it carries agricultural chemicals—especially nitrogen—with it. Nitrogen fouls aquifers and local water systems, creates or exacerbates algae blooms in local lakes and ponds, and, if it enters the Mississippi River drainage system, some of it will end up contributing...
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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 533–535.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of the soil. He concludes that intensifying agriculture does not enhance soil nitrogen (N) and organic matter, and often depletes them, especially when forests and grasslands have been cleared and cultivated. In China trends in N and organic matter actually were more favorable from the 1930s to 1950s...
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“From Oil Well to Farm”: Industrial Waste, Shell Oil, and the Petrochemical Turn (1927–1947)
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 70–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., 1936; A. B. Beaumont and G. J. Larsinos , “Aqua Ammonia as a Nitrogen Fertilizer,” American Fertilizer 76 ( Apr. 23 , 1932 ): 9 – 10 ; Leavitt , “Agricultural Ammonia,” 135 , 133 ; Cornelis B. de Bruyn. Process of Fertilizing Soil. US Patent 2,020,824, filed Nov. 26, 1934...
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 535–536.
Published: 01 October 2001
... in the title, Smil's Enriching the Earth is not really about these two people who were most responsible for developing the science and methods facilitating remarkable growth in the commercial application of nitrogenous fertilizers in the twentieth century. Indeed, altogether scarcely forty pages are devoted...
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Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2015
... through the lens of the nitrogen cycle in ways that strengthen the debate. The book is a welcome addition to the shelf of agricultural history, too, bringing one of the fundamental elements of agrarian activity nitrogen to the center of current environmental politics. B. R. Cohen Lafayette College Guano...
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Guatemala’s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highland
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 283–322.
Published: 01 July 2009
... CareyJr. 287 AgriculturaHl istory Summer Table 1. ChemicalFertilizerSsold inKaqchikelTowns Name Ingredients Weight Price "Hydro"20-20-0, Phosphorou(sP) 20%, 47kilograms 90quetzals FertilizantBesarco 20% Nitrogen ($ 11.70) VikingoH, ydro NordicSA** 8.7% Nitric(NO3), 11.3%Ammonium(NH4 Vegetabledevelopment...
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On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 April 2007
... developments. Cunfer evaluates both water mining of the Ogallala aquifer and a comparable nitrogen mining of the soil, but emphasizes the ultimate necessity of coming to terms with limitations imposed by variable rainfall and the exigencies of the nitrogen cycle. The chapter on the Dust Bowl will surely be one...
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Feed, Fertilizer, and Agricultural Productivity in the Netherlands, 1880–1930
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 January 2000
.... 68,000 279,000 Source: Knibbe,Agriculturein theNetherlands,annexIII. 14. See also VanZanden,"Deeconomischeontwikkelingvande Nederlandselandbouw,"261. 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1905 1910 1915 1920 - Nitrogen P205 Figure 2. Availabilityof chemical fertilizer,1905-1930 (thousands of tons...
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