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...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 122 / Agricultural History Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses 1800. By Margaret...

...Paul D. Peterson American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree . Susan Freinkel . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews missan opportunitfyorsomeinterestinignterpretatioonn theroleoffood incross-culturraellationshipIsn. theSouthwestH...

...Adam W. Ebert The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture . By Gene Kritsky . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 216 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-538544-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring...

... of California– Berkeley , 2011 ), Chpts. 1–2. It was a Long Way from Perfect, but it was Working : The Canning and Home Production Initiatives in Greene County, Georgia, 1940 1942 CLIFFORD M. KUHN During the early 1940s Greene County, Georgia s, Unified Farm Program, a model undertaking coordinating...

... as "agriburbs." Agriburbs, such as Ontario, were communities consciously planned, developed, and promoted based on the drive for profit in emerging agricultural markets. Advertised as the perfect mix of rural and urban, they promised a superior middle-class lifestyle. On the one hand, agriburbs evoked the myths...

... systems for over one thousand years. In dry farmed fields fed by violent monsoon storms and in terraced gardens irrigated by ancestral springs, Hopi agriculturalists perfected a system of spiritual and physical subsistence that produced the majority of food consumed in Hopi communities. During...

... Spring history will admire the author s ability to present complex issues in an accessible style. Peter Atkins Durham University The Quest for the Perfect Hive:A History of Innovation in Bee Culture. By Gene Kritsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 216 pp., $24.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-538544-1...

... University Coronavirus Resource Center, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html (accessed April 30. 2021) 2. Sunny Dooley, “Coronavirus is Attacking the Navajo ‘Because We have Built the Perfect Human for it to Invade,‘” Scientific American , July 8, 2020, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

... farmers in southern Indiana, ambivalent about commer cial agriculture, indifferent to economic "progress," opposed to perfection ism, and anxious about governmental intervention, embraced what he per ceives as the "logic of localism" (5). This is a significant contribution to midwestern history...

... , Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink ( New York : New York University Press , 2002 ), 125 – 43 . 9. “Dairy Expert, at 70, Sets Up New Goal: H. W. Jeffers Sr., Pioneer in Milk Sanitation, Dreams of Service to 200,000,” New York Times , Jan. 5 , 1941 , 41 . 10...

... overrode practical considerations of greater size, however, cracks in the transition became apparent. In 1983, for example, what turned out to be a remarkable Hereford bull was born within an environment demanding lean meat and greater framescore. Named KLC RB3 Perfection, he became a sensation as a show...

... for illumination (it was often simply called illuminating oil), entrepreneurs were not slow to see its potential for other uses. By 1882, a census report noted, kerosene stoves are being brought to a great degree of perfection and are found to be very useful. After worrying a bit that their use might result...

... to achieve purity and perfection through regulation, professionalization, and science.81 In that moment of divine possibility, turning the filth of the city into a prized commodity made infinite sense. But although professional contractors theoretically profited by selling swill to farmers outside Providence...

... of Biotechnology: Lessons from the rbST Experience, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 747-01 ( Washington, DC : Economic Research Service (ERS) , Dec. 1998 ); E. Melanie DuPuis , Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink ( New York : New York University Press , 2002 ), 220 , 223...

... in critical historical perspectives may come away believing that, for the most part, the experiences of Black people in the region were predominantly pleasant, which is not entirely accurate. However, he repeatedly argues that the book is about the history of the “good country,” not the “perfect country...

... is perfect for the Uni? versity of Hertfordshire's series because it is a work that, due largely to the narrowness of its topic, would likely not find a publisher any where else. By its nature, economic history is not exciting reading and monographs on the subject will not appeal to the popular market...

... to suggest that there was nothing inevitable about the later decline of Jamaica or Saint-Domingue. Instead, they maintain that the ongoing perfection of the integrated plantation model meant these machines were increasingly efficient at extracting human labor and producing profits (266). Only external...

... considerable time inhis introduction seeking to locate the intellectual space inwhich he has written. Utilizing Foucault's brief com ments on the need for a history of spaces, Bantjes offers a set of comments that indicate just how perfect theCanadian Prairie West (during the period of settlement and early...

.... Women had to make do with whatever was on hand. The durable material used to make these bags was perfect for curtains and clothing for themselves and their families. To increase sales, feed and flour manufacturers began to produce sacks in patterns?attractive, brightly colored flowers, stripes...

..., and screenwriter {The Black Stallion, Honeysuckle Rose, Lonesome Dove, Legends ofthe Fall, and The Perfect Storm). Back in 1970 the late historian Joe B. Frantz arranged for him to visit El Rancho Tule, a cattle ranch in Coahuila, Mexico. "The ranch itself was 360,000 acres without a cross fence," Wittliff recalls...