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The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South

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Christopher C. Meyers
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 131–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.1.131
Published: 01 January 2018
...Christopher C. Meyers The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South . By William Thomas Okie . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 316 pp., $34.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-7172-8 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century

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Tom Okie
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.1.72
Published: 01 January 2011
...Tom Okie Abstract The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the “Queen of Fruits.” This portrayal is partly true...
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Figure 4. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and skill” when packing them for shipment. Wages of a dollar a day made packing “profitable” work, but racism often limited this “light and congenial work” to only the most “eminently respectable class of people.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry, n.p.

Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and ...

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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
Figure 4. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and skill” when packing them for shipment. Wages of a dollar a day made packing “profitable” work, but racism often limited this “light and congenial work” to only the most “eminently respectable class of people More
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Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South

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Bryant K. Barnes
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619798
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 4. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and skill” when packing them for shipment. Wages of a dollar a day made packing “profitable” work, but racism often limited this “light and congenial work” to only the most “eminently respectable class of people...
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Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

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Sharon Ann Murphy
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 130–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.1.130
Published: 01 January 2018
... Providence College The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. By William Thomas Okie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 316 pp., $34.99, hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-7172-8. Would you care for a Georgia peach? Historian William Tom Okie opens his book...
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“No One Was on Their Own”: Sociability among Rural African American Women in Middle Georgia during the Interwar Years

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Chrissy Lutz, Dawn Herd-Clark
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.3.437
Published: 01 July 2019
... Tours in Houston and Peach Counties. Two agents reported in 1939, for example, that they had set up social recreational clubs with weekly programs slated for the next five years. Local farmers invited others to visit their farms and see how the grounds had been improved, fences built, curtains...
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A Currant Affair: E. D. Smith and Agricultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Saltfleet Township, Ontario

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Sean W. Gouglas
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 438–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.4.438
Published: 01 October 2001
... mind of E. D. Smith noted the economic potential of peaches and plums that his mother had discovered during his early life.5 Ironically, Smith, who would become one of Canada's most famous farmers, began his schooling with hopes of becoming a civil engineer. He proved an excellent student, achieving...
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792

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Kristalyn Shefveland
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 146–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.146
Published: 01 January 2020
... the first to introduce European fruit tress to the Ohio Valley. Indigenous peoples of Florida traded Book Reviews 147 peach pits to the Lenni-Lenape women who then planted them along the Delaware River Valley. From there peach trees expanded west into the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes. This discussion...
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The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History

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Benjamin R. Cohen
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 147–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.147
Published: 01 January 2020
... peach pits to the Lenni-Lenape women who then planted them along the Delaware River Valley. From there peach trees expanded west into the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes. This discussion highlights the extensive agrarian land cultivation and knowledge of Indigenous women. It was these women who created...
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An Invitation to Dance

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Kendra Smith-Howard
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 231–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619868
Published: 01 May 2022
... . Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2004 . Okie William Thomas . The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Orland...
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The Shifting Nature of Subsistence on the Hopi Indian Reservation

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Tai Elizabeth Johnson
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 215–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10337941
Published: 01 May 2023
..., demonstrating that a large portion of the Hopi diet had not been dramatically altered for a millennium. 10 The Walpi Restoration Project also unearthed the remains of plants introduced to the Hopi by the Spanish as early as the sixteenth century, when Hopis adopted crops like melons, onions, peaches...
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Making an Industry: Fruit Growers and Indifference in the British Columbia Wine Industry, 1891–1945

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Benjamin Bryce
Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 218–242.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11625330
Published: 01 May 2025
... fruit such as apples or peaches instead of grapes. This focus on producer preference unsettles the teleological approach taken in many studies of wine and other agricultural histories. In such teleologies, a plant that later becomes a dominant agricultural product is studied and its rise to dominance...
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The “Age of Agricultural Ignorance”: Trends and Concerns for Agriculture Knee-Deep into the Twenty–First Century

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Sterling Evans
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.1.004
Published: 01 January 2019
..., and food history is William Thomas Okie’s The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American South (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). 15. J. H. Fabre, as quoted in John T. Schlebecker, Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607-1972 (Ames: Iowa...
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The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture

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William Kerrigan
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 298–299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11077535
Published: 01 May 2024
... as much for a Washington apple, when local apples could be purchased for a fraction of the price?” (4) Despite these barriers, the state's apple growers found success, and “today, Washington is synonymous with apples, just as Idaho is with potatoes, and Georgia with peaches” (4). Chapter 1 surveys...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 102–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.1.102
Published: 01 January 2011
... OKIE is the 2009 winner of the Everett E. Edwards award for the best article submitted to Agricultural History by a graduate student. At present, he is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of Georgia. His article is entitled, Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest...
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History of the Prairie West: Agricultural History

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Peter A. Russell
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 543–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.543
Published: 01 October 2013
.... Schackel. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 200 pp., $24.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1780-7. Reading this book makes you want to can a bushel of peaches. Drive a tractor. Butcher chickens, milk cows, or castrate calves. Open a dude ranch. The stories of ranch and farmwomen captured by Sandra K...
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Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West

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Susan Rugh
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 544–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.544
Published: 01 October 2013
... of peaches. Drive a tractor. Butcher chickens, milk cows, or castrate calves. Open a dude ranch. The stories of ranch and farmwomen captured by Sandra K. Schackel in this book can inspire all of that and more. Schackel, professor of history emerita at Boise State University, traveled throughout the West...
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The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

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Kurt E. Kinbacher
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 302–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11077555
Published: 01 May 2024
... that agritourism—a new version of a nineteenth-century idea—offers “educational experiences” to an increasingly urban public; it also encourages water conservation and creates “a boom for small-town economic development” (170). In western Colorado, famous peaches, wineries, U-pick operations, farmers’ markets...
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“Like Ribbons of Green and Gold”: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965

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Gabriella M. Petrick
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.269
Published: 01 July 2006
... to the mass production of the commodities Stoll examines. Stoll also does not distinguish between the commodities themselves. A fresh ripe peach is far more perishable than a raisin or an orange. And while peaches can be picked while still under-ripe and shipped eastward, lettuce could not. Thus, true mass...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 133–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.1.133
Published: 01 January 2014
... University, and currently works as a freelance book developer for academic authors. Gilbert C. Fite Award TOM OKIE is the 2012 winner of the Gilbert C. Fite dissertation award for his dissertation entitled, Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia : Culture and Agriculture in the American South. Okie...
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