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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 623–626.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach . Ramanan Laxminarayan . An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control . J. R. M. Thacker . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 623 Walbert is on firmer...
View articletitled, Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach An Introduction to Arthropod <span class="search-highlight">Pest</span> Control
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Jeannie Whayne Abstract This paper argues that agricultural scientists Dwight Isley, Harry Rosen, and William Baerg developed an “integrated pest management” approach at the University of Arkansas in the 1920s; an approach that served as an inspiration for later generations of researchers...
View articletitled, The Incidental Environmentalists: Dale Bumpers, George Templeton, and the Origins of the Rosen Alternative <span class="search-highlight">Pest</span> Control Center at the University of Arkansas
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 303–304.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Frederick R. Davis The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management . By Mary Jane Angelo . Burlington : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . 264 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-7431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews (267). Intensive...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
... services, these conventions attempted to prevent the introduction of plant diseases and pests into national territories from which they were previously absent. Second, by standardizing these practices—especially through the design of a unique certificate of inspection—the conventions attempted to eliminate...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2011
... not how the cotton pest destroyed the region’s staple crop, but how women and men across race and class lines understood the beetle’s threat and used it to their advantage. The statue, like the countless blues and folk songs about the pest, was a cultural statement that shaped the understanding of the bug...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hiromi Mizuno Abstract Bitter melon is a popular gourd vegetable native to Okinawa in Japan. However, because of the melon fly, a very damaging pest on the quarantine list, bitter melon could not be sold in mainland Japan until the fly was eradicated from Okinawa Prefecture in 1993 by using...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 74–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
... preserved, shipped to other centers, or sold on the open market. Short growing seasons, poor soils, initially undeveloped lands, pests, equipment shortages, and labor issues hampered operations. However, imprisoned evacuee farmers proved that diverse agricultural programs could succeed in the harsh settings...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Thomas Rath Abstract From the 1960s to the 1990s, the US Department of Agriculture led a campaign across North America to eradicate a notorious livestock pest known as the screwworm. It did so by breeding flies in factories, sterilizing them with radiation, and scattering them from the air. Based...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 83–114.
Published: 01 January 2001
... Entomologists," Nature105 (29 July1920): 676 -77 4 Jonathan
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and H. A. Beecham, " Crop Pests and Diseases ," in The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1750–1850 , ed. G. E. Mingay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 ), 4 : 311 Frank M. Turner, "Public Science in Britain...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 319–323.
Published: 01 May 2023
... ,” the flagship journal on pest control, “I did so not just as a geographer or a historian in need of a new project, but as someone who has always been keen to figure out why agriculture in the United States is so dependent on poisonous chemicals” (2). Romero leafed through the entire set of the Journal...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 622–623.
Published: 01 October 2003
.... Edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan. Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, 2002. 377 pp., $65.00, cloth, ISBN 1-891853-51-1. An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control By J.R.M. Thacker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 343 pp., $80.00, cloth, ISBN 0-52156106-X; $30.00, paper, ISBN 0-521-56787-4. Muitidrug...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 309–321.
Published: 01 April 2000
... in promoting a public agenda of insect control and thus advancing the burgeoning science of economic entomology. Economic ento? mology, now called applied entomology, was a science that sought to un? derstand the economic problems pest insects caused and to control those insects injurious to crops, livestock...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
.... MCWILLIAMS isan associateprofessorofhistoryatTexas StateUniversity San Marcos. He is the author of A Revolution inEating: How theQuest for Food Shaped America;Building theBay Colony:Economy and Society inEarlyMassachusetts,and the forthcoming American Pests: Our Losing War On Insects from Colonial Times...
View articletitled, "The Horizon Opened up Very Greatly": Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894-1927
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 626–627.
Published: 01 October 2003
... understanding of the parameters that influence the develop? ment and spread of diseases and pests in our environment will provide the guidance for reasoned applications of pesticides and to evaluate how best to deploy genetically-modified crops. I have two reservations about An Introduction to Arthropod Pest...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 558–559.
Published: 01 October 2010
..., it adds a class dimension and analysis of local politics to a story thathas so far ignored class and focused on the federal level. Histories of pest control inAmerica can be divided into two types.First are the broad surveys,written in the 1970s and 1980s, largely in response to concerns raised byRachel...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 304–306.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... Although there are many approaches to pest control available to farmers, such policies result in continued reliance upon chemical insecticides. Angelo then reviews the various classes of pesticides including organochlorines (like DDT) and organophosphates (like Parathion) as well as genetically modified...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 70–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
...: Scientific Approaches to the Problem of Insecticide Resistance, 1920s–1960s,” Ambix 51 ( July 2004 ): 135 – 47 ; James McWilliams , American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 ). For a biological picture...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of the focal points of a process of biogeographical dispossession. in the early twentieth century, as the cattle industry became increasingly dominated by a few large corporate ranches, ranchers faced competition from another kind of pest: grasshoppers. The book s second section describes how the ranchers...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., there is also a consid erable amount of information about local soils and flora, theunusual botany of the banana and related Musa species, the ecology of tropical rainforests on theNorth Coast ofHonduras, and the formidable pest complex of fungi, nematodes, and insects thatplagued and nearly defeated...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 118–119.
Published: 01 April 2012
... in Texas and destroyed vast acreage, it set off a near-hysteria that southern life faced its greatest threat since the Civil War (xii). The author further claims that a myth developed about the pest, a widespread belief that the appearance of the boll weevil was an Act of God, a voracious natural enemy...
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