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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 165–167.
Published: 01 January 2020
... core. The views expressed in this review are my own and not necessarily those of the US Department of State or the United States Government. Kristin L. Ahlberg Office of the Historian, US Department of State ...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 633–658.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Administration, War Relocation Authority, and Office of the Provost Marshal General to meet wartime food demands. Growers racialized farmworkers’ access to space before the war, but wartime labor programs made the Hellwig Brothers’ Farm a formal prison. This article argues that the Hellwig Brothers’ Farm reveals...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., gangsters stealing from small town banks, prohibition officers raiding rural stills, or farmers hanging themselves from barn rafters. The climate of financial fear, whether real of exaggerated, added to this overall morbid tension, and midwestern rural society no longer projected an idealistic image...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 384–410.
Published: 01 July 2009
... 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...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 263–288.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., medical officers of health, chemists, and bacteriologists. These burgeoning professions competed and jostled for authority even as they were being used by elite companies to reorganize the British dairy industry. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. J. P. Sheldon , “Dairy...
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Published: 01 November 2023
figure 1. Weighing beans at Seabrook Farms. Field-workers were paid a piece rate, which meant that bad weather and delayed harvests could prove disastrous. John Collier Jr., Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, June 1942. More
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Published: 01 February 2023
contrasts, and on nonmechanized farms, demand could range as high as twenty to thirty times the “normal” during harvest. Based on chart in Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1917 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918), 544–45 (chart found in G. Wright, “American More
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 497–504.
Published: 01 October 2004
... that he was a clerk at the USDA, but that he had an abiding interest in history and had been talking to the department's personnel office about opportunities in this area. The expe? rienced USDA hand decided to help, and soon Rasmussen transferred to the history unit in the Bureau of Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 140–141.
Published: 01 January 2006
.... By Chantal Amyot and John Willis. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 212 pp, $39.95, paperback, ISBN 0-660-18998-4. At the beginning of Country Post Chantal Amyot and John Willis invite the reader to recall the country post offices of their past. My recollection is of a simple booth painted...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 712–714.
Published: 01 November 2023
... consequences. Historian Laura Ann Twagira offers a novel twist by showing how the labor and agency of West African women sustained one struggling French colonial agriculture scheme, the Office du Niger, for decades in ways that were unplanned for and mostly unnoticed by the colonial authorities and engineers...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 512–530.
Published: 01 November 2022
... it is pretty easy to sit in an office and laugh at the cry baby farmers. We all read what a certain individual had to say in the paper. Comments like these only lead the farmer to realize how alone he is. . . . WE NEED HELP. 16 There was also a deep feeling among farmers that individuals like Stockman...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
... by F. A. Stockdale on his visit to West Africa, 1929, Jan. 16, 1930, Colonial Agriculture Council Paper (hereafter CAC) 19, Colonial Office, National Archives, Kew (hereafter CO), 323/1088/7; Minutes of the 17 th meeting of Colonial Advisory Council on Agriculture and Animal Health, Apr. 11, 1933...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 230–246.
Published: 01 April 2016
...,” Oxford Development Studies 31 ( Dec. 2003 ): 405 – 25 ; Monica M. van Beusekom , “Disjunctures in Theory and Practice: Making Sense of Change in Agricultural Development at the Office du Niger, 1920–1960,” Journal of African History 41 : 1 ( 2000 ): 79 – 99 ; Christophe Bonneuil...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 519–523.
Published: 01 October 2008
... job interview at ERS in 1990, he had a map ofKorea on his office wall and readily shared stories ofhisexperiencestherwe hen I remarkedon theunexpecteddecoration. Those stories,focusinglargelyon theexcitementand physicaland tech nical challengesof his service,continuedduringtheyearswe sharedan office...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 321–346.
Published: 01 July 2005
.... Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Notes 1 Statistical Annual of Greece (Athens: National Printing Office, 1931 ), 30 ,104-105. 2 Thomas W. Gallant , Modern Greece (London: Oxford University Press, 2001 ), 13550 Al Phillips , " Employment as a Key...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 January 2018
... from Meredith C. Wilson , How and to What Extent is the Extension Service Reaching Low-Income Farm Families ( Washington, DC : Government Printing Office , 1941 ), 18 . 4. Christina S. Jarvis , The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II ( DeKalb : Northern...
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Published: 01 August 2023
seedlings in center of picture; and on extreme right, cowpeas (for green manure), tung oil, and in rear, a corner of the pineapple variety collection. Buildings are as follows: Office and quarters in front, propagating shed on left, plant house on right, and small greenhouse in rear. This ground was cleared More
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 143–166.
Published: 01 April 2006
... John B. Rae , The Road and the Car in American Life (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971 ), 25 -26 Seely, Building the American Highway System, 9 4 Office of Road Inquiry (hereafter ORI) , USDA, "State Laws Relating to the Management of Roads," Bulletin #1 (Washing¬ ton, DC: GPO...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in Poland (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), 67-77 Torańska, "Them," 118, 292-93. 18 "Long-Term Prospects of Food Supplies from Poland," Note by the Ministry of Food, Feb. 3, 1948 Ambassador Donald Gainer to the Foreign Office, Mar. 9, 1948, Foreign Office (hereafter FO) 371/71512...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 266–270.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the sale of agricultural knowledge. Despite these challenges, Morrow returned home with scores of new collections. While private seed companies and farmers sought these foreign exotics for private gain, Morrow donated his seeds to the Patent Office in Washington, DC, which housed an expansive collection...