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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 342–368.
Published: 01 July 2017
... about the process of recovery and postwar growth. This paper offers a window on both. The evidence discussed here survives as a legacy of a long-lived, state-run agricultural statistics program in Kansas. The State Board of Agriculture conducted annual household surveys of farms between 1873 and 1981...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 228–257.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Alon Tal Abstract This article offers an overview of the vicissitudes faced by Israeli agriculture during the past century. The Zionist pioneers who came from Europe to Palestine sought to "reclaim" the status of Jewish farmers in their homeland. This ethic translated into an extraordinary societal...
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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
railroads with little room to offer the lower rates fruit growers demanded. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p.
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 2020
... women says little about this important energy transition before electricity and gas. For rural and farm households, where the alternative was coal or wood, oil offered significant benefits, and to farm women especially it was a godsend. Oil was cleaner, quicker, cooler, lighter, and more portable...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Michael Winslow Abstract Agricultural science and technology were central elements in creating a tourist landscape in the southeastern United States, at the Pinehurst resort, around the turn of the twentieth century. Pinehurst offers a case study for thinking about how much work, in terms of human...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 October 2009
... 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...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 477–502.
Published: 01 October 2009
.... Their experiences offer insight into broader developments of second wave agrarian feminisms that enabled farm women’s organizations to renegotiate © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 NOTES 1 Jan Jackson, "Iowa Pork-ettes Newsletter," 1964, in the 1971 Iowa Porkette Project Book, Iowa Porkettes...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 288–310.
Published: 01 April 2019
... wanted them to grow. Examining the ways that racial assumptions affected the conception and creation of the Banco Ejidal brings new life to the study of economic policymaking in Mexico and offers a new direction for studies of agricultural banks. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-resistant wheat during the formative years of the MAP's wheat program. Between 1943 and 1953, rust-resistant wheat helped increase Mexican wheat production 84 percent and yields 59 percent. Rust-resistant wheat offered an alternative model for a sustainable, resource-neutral green revolution. Rather than...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Sally McMurry Abstract Farm barns, outbuildings, and landscapes are underutilized primary sources for agricultural history. They can offer insight unavailable in traditional documentary sources. For example, buildings contain information about the lives of groups that did not leave many written...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 336–353.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Jeremy Diaper Abstract This article offers a reassessment of the New English Weekly: A Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts (1932–1949). In contrast to previous assessments, which have looked predominantly at its agricultural content within the period 1939–1949, this article focuses...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
Published: 01 October 2014
... materials to enlighten existing methods of agricultural research. This essay expands upon the application of E. McClung Fleming's model for material culture analysis and offers a methodological case study using extant examples of Deere & Company's No. 999 Two-Row Planter. It suggests the ways...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 538–565.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., followed in the 1970s by new cultivation techniques, especially replanting with caturra (dwarf variety) bushes. This study offers a close reading of the lived experience of these processes as well as the construction of memories and meanings. It also highlights how profoundly radical some...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 172–189.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Royden Loewen; Ben Nobbs-Thiessen Abstract This article offers a transnational history of migrant material culture by exploring the changing meanings of the steel-wheeled tractor. A defining innovation, the steel wheel transformed North American agriculture but by mid-twentieth century had been...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 437–459.
Published: 01 October 2011
.... The program offered an alternative to the Boy Scouts, which Dexter D. Mayne, the organization's founder, believed to be unsatisfactory and inappropriate for farm youth. Ultimately, the organization may have promoted too much freedom for the rural youth, advocating behavior that parents could not approve...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 23–40.
Published: 01 April 2012
... traditional imagery and direct appeals to the history of agriculture. Given the United States' automobile culture, the plates are prominent, if small, works of public history that offer official sanction to a particular view of agriculture's past. In creating the license plate, the Virginia legislature...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Melissa Walker Abstract Agrarian ideology—the celebration of farming and rural life for the benefit it brings to individuals and the nation—has become part of a widespread national discourse about what we eat and how we live. This essay examines major tenets of new agrarian thinking and offers...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 452–472.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Hans Werner Abstract In the 1920s some 3,800 Mennonites who had settled in Manitoba in the 1870s left their farms to migrate to the Bustillos Valley of northern Mexico. While conflict over education was the main stimulus for the move, this paper argues that the migration also offered an opportunity...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 366–392.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Grosso offer valuable lessons for understanding the application of modernization technologies to diverse ecosystems; such knowledge can lead to a more sustainable approach to meat production. Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Notes 1 paper was presented at the II Simposio...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 176–194.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., particularly American, feed manufacturers had on this growth. Oral histories offer insight into the microeconomic forces at work in the recent development of Spanish livestock farming and highlight the role of local entrepreneurs in the establishment of livestock agribusiness. © 2010 Agricultural History...
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