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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 484–510.
Published: 01 October 2016
... in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between 1813 and 1845. Using a combination of documentary property information with a GIS reconstruction of women’s landholdings in the parish, this article assesses the quality of land that women owned and their involvement with it. The study argues that women, like...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Becky L. Snider Book Reviews / 113 Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish. By Fred W. Peterson. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998. 198 pp., hardback, $39.95, ISBN 0-87351-368-1; paperback, $19.95, ISBN 0-87351-369...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 366–368.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Gordon E. Harvey A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699-2000 . Samuel C. Hyde Jr. . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 366 / Agricultural History tory of a school whose curriculum provided far more than...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 April 2011
... parishes—one devoted to cotton production, the other to sugar. Data from these parishes and elsewhere in Louisiana suggests several problems with Ransom and Sutch's conclusions, especially their famous “territorial monopoly” thesis. Moreover, the superior performance of sugar parish stores underscores...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 703–704.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Robert Tracy McKenzie Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880 . John C. Rodrigue . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 703 Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Peter Hillis Abstract In the nineteenth century many farmers kept a diary of the farming year to record such features as the weather, crop yields, animal husbandry, and prices. Research into church and people in the parishes of Fordyce and Portsoy in North East Scotland led to the discovery...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 200–224.
Published: 01 April 2015
... challenged this status by achieving meaningful degrees of economic and social stability in the antebellum South. This essay examines such a group—a segment of free black farmers in the rural parishes surrounding Charleston, South Carolina, whose farming strategies, production, and rural lives were quite...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 187–214.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and Statistics (Vic.), Accession No. MP570/1, Series MP570, National Archives of Australia, Melbourne, Aus. The parish-level data on farming practices can be supplemented with farm inventories from probate records. 6. Land Settlement files are held in the Victorian Public Records Series 5714 and 5357...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 364–366.
Published: 01 July 2006
... A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 256 pp., $21.95, paperback, ISBN 0-8071-2923-2. What started as a September 2000 conference in Hammond, Louisiana, de...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 174–200.
Published: 01 April 2009
.... Parish, "With Howling Wolves," Detroit Tribune, June 13, 1888, 3. Liberty Hyde Bailey, "In the Wild Woods," Detroit Free Press, June 21, 1888, 4 and Beal, "The Horticulture Problems of Northern Michigan," 56-57. 7 Ray Stannard Baker and Jessie Beal Baker, An American Pioneer in Science: The Life...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 458–459.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Louisiana s Florida Parishes (the eight parishes that were once part of West Florida) along with visitors to that portion of the Bayou State are familiar with the majestic Rosedown Plantation. In many ways a reflection of the wealth and power that characterized the antebellum South, Rosedown served as one...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 459–460.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... Drew A. Swanson Millsaps College The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation. Ed. by Suzanne Turner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 366 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-4411-4. Most residents of Louisiana s Florida Parishes (the eight parishes...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 2004
... Rural German Americans," Journal of Family History21 (April1996): 192217 St. Boniface Parish, Cold Spring, in its parish history, Amid Hills of Granite—A Spring of Faith, A History of St Boniface Parish, Cold Spring, Minnesota, 1878–1978 (n.p.: n.p., 1978), 36–39 Der Nordstern (St. Cloud) , April...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 286–288.
Published: 01 April 2007
... in the region and the nation. Some five hundred sugar masters, representing only 13 percent of all slaveholders in the sugar parishes, became enormously wealthy capitalists and produced three-quarters of the region's output of sugar cane. They transformed the region but at enormous human cost. As Follett argues...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 669–671.
Published: 01 October 2020
... locations, Mulberry Plantation in St. John s Berkeley Parish and Medway plantation in St. James Goose Creek Parish. The remainder of the book explores how owners, visitors, and the media redefined the concept of plantation through popular depictions of the carefully crafted experiences to be had on them...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... a mosaic disease section to its 1915 Protection from Disease (Plants) Law. By this time, the disease had been identified in the parishes of St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth, and Westmoreland. 94 The disease had also been wreaking havoc on nearby Puerto Rico's cane industry for nearly three years...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... Argenteuil's population numbered 4,450 persons in 1851, 4,467 in 1861, and 3,892 in 1871, distributed between two civil parishes, St. Andrew and St. Jerusalem. This population was predominantly anglophone, made up of Loyalists and late Loyalists and their descendants, and immi? grants from the British Isles...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 244–260.
Published: 01 April 2018
... ( London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans , 1851 ), 79 . 23. Daniel Laxer , “Listening to the Fur Trade,” 338 . 24. Manitoba Census 1870, MG 9 E3, No. 2338, Library and Archives Canada; Cadastrel: Parish Plan of St. John’s, St. James, and St. Boniface, H9 614.11 gbbd, Series 1, Sheet...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 169–191.
Published: 01 October 2012
... in a parcel of moorland called Balleye or Bow Lee, which lay between the townships of Middleton, in Middleton parish, and both Great and Little Heaton, in Prestwich parish. When the case came before the Duchy of Lancaster court, deponents were asked whether the lord of Middleton and the lords of the two...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 388–401.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and Chicot Counties, Arkansas, totaled 346,908 improved acres, as compared to Carroll, Morehouse, Union, Claiborne, Bossier, and Caddo Parishes, Louisiana that had 559,105. Statistics compiled from Historical Census Browser, University of Virginia Library, mapserver.lib.virginia.edu (hereafter HCB) (accessed...
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