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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Romina Robles Ruvalcaba Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula . By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2020 . 192 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Alaine Hutson Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula . By Benjamin Reilly . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2015 . 222 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8214-2182-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History and there were plenty...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Terry S. Reynolds Abstract Between 1895 and 1915 Cleveland-Cliffs, one of America’s leading iron mining companies, became deeply involved in promoting agricultural development on Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula. Its two-decade-long attempt to identify appropriate plants and farming practices...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Terry Rugeley Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula . Vernon L. Scarborough , Fred Valdez Jr. and Nicholas Dunning . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 382 / Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Angélica Márquez-Osuna Abstract This article examines the role of the stingless bee Melipona beecheii in beekeeping practices in the Yucatán Peninsula, México, in the nineteenth century. Native to Yucatán, the Melipona bee is capable of producing large amounts of honey and has been bred by Maya...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 January 2006
... with twine that farmhands later would gather into shocks to await threshing. The majority of the twine used was made from fiber from agave plants (sisal and henequen) from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The dependency on this Mexican commodity is illustrated by the fact that for the first two decades...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 582–610.
Published: 01 October 2003
... Indonesian roots and tubers--taro and yams. It looks at the geographical spread of these crops and their social and economic importance--dealing also briefly with adjacent areas like the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. This is followed by the story of the introduction of the New World roots and tubers...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 217–241.
Published: 01 April 2001
...¬ tralian Archives, 29 December1897 16 Correll, Hugenot Or Not, 70. 17 Williams, The Making of the South Australian Landscape, 139 Meinig, On the Margins, 103 18 Leader (Melbourne), 9 May 1891. 19 Argus (Melbourne), 7 November 1892 Yorke Peninsula Advertizer, 4 April 1879...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 491–492.
Published: 01 August 2024
... focuses on the multicultural foodways of the medieval Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal, although Portugal is not included here at all). The emphasis is on the culinary encounters of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the peninsula before 1500. Although there is some material on animal husbandry...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 April 2021
... discussions. Fernando Herrera Calderón University of Northern Iowa Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula. By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. 192 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. In Sugarcane...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 687–689.
Published: 01 October 2020
...: The Rise and Fall of Colombia s First Drug Paradise. By Lina Britto. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 352 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-5203-2547-0. On the outskirts of the Colombian city of Valledupar, heading north into the Guajira Peninsula, two nearby parks serve as subtle public...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 182–184.
Published: 01 January 2021
... on three case studies from the Irish uplands (Carna peninsula, Gleann Cholm Cille, and the Galtee Mountains). While all three landscape contexts feature remarkable archeological evidence and ethnographic documentation of seasonal herding, they differ considerably in topography, soil, and socioeconomic...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 402–404.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to archeological methodology in the Peninsula. It shows how one can combine fragmentary material evidence with the written and historiographic record. The book contains a number of figures that can help students visualize the world economy in the fragmentary remnants of what workers and hacienda owners left behind...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 432–433.
Published: 01 July 2017
... transformation between the 1920s and the 2000s. Few since Emilio Sereni have made so productive a use of the concept of landscape to interpret the manifold processes revolutionizing the peninsula over the course of the twentieth century. From the rise of fascism in the 1920s to the birth of agritourism...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 431–432.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Sereni have made so productive a use of the concept of landscape to interpret the manifold processes revolutionizing the peninsula over the course of the twentieth century. From the rise of fascism in the 1920s to the birth of agritourism and the heritage industry in the 1970s, the author traces a series...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 110–111.
Published: 01 January 2011
...; the growth of the mainland rice industries of Southeast Asia to service needs on the Malay peninsula and in the archipelago; the importance of Japan to Indonesia s post-independence economy; and impact of internal and external pressures upon Javanese villages over the long term. The work also has serious...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., 2013. 384 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-933227-48-1. In a region whose history is almost inextricably intertwined with that of the Spanish Empire, it is easy to overlook the presence of other immigrants from the Iberian Peninsula in the history of the American West. Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of rural production Marzano s study of the range, context, and development of multi-press processing units in Gaul, the Iberian peninsula, and the Black Sea region demonstrates an earlier period of expansion in the production of the cash crops of wine and olive oil in the first and second centuries CE...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 426–427.
Published: 01 July 2007
... process. Importantly, as the pace ofmodernization increased and its effects became more generalized throughout the Iberian Peninsula, the obstacles (slow, sporadic demand for labor, illiteracy, and geographic distance) that had slowed or prevented ruralmigration no longer existed or were dramatically...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 543–544.
Published: 01 October 2010
... the Mediterranean coast from the Sinai Peninsula to southernAnatolia, extend ing toMesopotamia in theEast and embracing Cyprus to theWest. Although mainly concerned with the period between 300 and 700 CE, the book has plenty to offer those interested inearlier periods of classical antiquity. The firsttwo chapters...
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