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Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 282–283.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Michelle Mart Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform . By Adam Tompkins . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5017-0448-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society...
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DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 282–283.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Thomas Roberston DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World . By David Kinkela . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 272 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3509-8 . © the Agricultural...
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Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control
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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...
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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Gordon M. Patterson Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South . Pete Daniel . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews ToxicDrift:PesticidesandHealth in thePostWorldWar II South.By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...
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Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 630–632.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Adam Romero Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology . By Frederick Rowe Davis . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 288 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20517-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall tion...
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The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management
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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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Pesticides, A Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 280–282.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of Mississippi Pesticides, A Love Story: America s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. By Michelle Mart. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 336 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2128-6. A multitude of scholars, scientists, and policymakers have struggled to explain why pesticide use went up...
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Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 648–649.
Published: 01 October 2018
...David K. Hecht Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 . By David D. Vail . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2018 . 168 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1973-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...
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“True Sustainability”: An Environmental, Worker, and Consumer History of Organic Strawberry Farming in 1990s California
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 500–531.
Published: 01 July 2021
...,” Saveur , June 20, 2011, https://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Sweet-Crusade-Swanton-Berry-Farm (accessed Apr. 9, 2019); Felicia Mello, “Hard Labor: The Organic Label Means Your Food is Pesticide-Free, but An Investigation into California Farms Reveals that the Label Means Nothing but Pain...
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Noxious Nicotine: The Use of Nicotine in Norwegian Horticulture in the 1950s
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 248–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Hilde Kristin Røsstad Abstract Many horticulturists in the 1950s used nicotine-based products both for personal consumption and for pesticidal application. Growers in postwar Norwegian horticulture were sometimes poisoned by nicotine sulfate, but many also smoked tobacco, and this was widely...
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The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 304–306.
Published: 01 April 2015
... required major inputs of chemicals in the form of pesticides and fertilizers. Both environmental impacts and human health effects correspond to chemicals in agriculture. Yet, Angelo notes, US Farm Policy continues to encourage highyield monoculture and intense chemical-input industrial agriculture...
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To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 228–257.
Published: 01 April 2007
... and excessive pesticide usage. The article considers responses to these challenges that offer promising prospects for a sustainable agricultural future in Israel. Notes 1 Richard
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and Théodore Reinach, "The Diaspora," Jewish Encyclopedia , http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com (accessed...
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Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
... banana monocultures of the surrounding area. While United Fruit's infamous plantations depended on the application of pesticides and chemical knowledge to produce a single commodity crop, its Lancetilla Experiment Station pursued a broad research program oriented toward agricultural diversification...
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Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... as the solution to the pest problem, this article situates Okinawan agriculture and the SIT project in the deeper context of colonialism, overdependence on pesticides, and the nuclearization of Japan, by taking seriously the fact that the entomologist who led the project felt profound ambivalence toward “peaceful...
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In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 302–303.
Published: 01 April 2015
... chapter. Her history of carnivorism seems indefensibly incomplete without a critical assessment of the evolving relationships between humans and the nonhuman animals whose lives are at stake. Jennifer Jensen Wallach University of North Texas The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management. By Mary...
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Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to deal with the huge influx of runaway teenagers. The final case study deals with baby boomers as parents expressing concern over food safety for children in the wake of ubiquitous pesticide use. Like the concerns over radiation testing, concerns about pesticides shifted from local to national...
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Powerful Disruptions: Braceros, Campesinos, and the Green Revolution in Mexico, 1940–1965
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 472–499.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Olsson, Agrarian Crossings , 153-54; Ochoa, Feeding Mexico , 101; Gladys McCormick, The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), 5-6; Jacob George Harrar, “Fertilizer and Pesticide Use...
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Farm Fields as Toxic Sinkhole
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 319–323.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to the discriminate use of pesticides, but Romero is. The author touches on the deaths caused by industrial poisons and expresses distrust for the stories and policies that justify their continued promotion. Romero sees the chemicalization of American agriculture as being quite different from the need to produce food...
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The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 432–433.
Published: 01 July 2007
... (245). The importance ofWright's book originally sprang from its broad cov erage of subject material. Building off the death of one agricultural field worker, a young Mixtec migrant male who probably died from pesticide poisoning in the intensive export agricultural region of theCuliacain, Wright...
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Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle. By Susanna rankin Bohme. oakland: university of california Press, 2015. 360 pp., $29.95, paperback, iSBn 978-0-520-27899-8. Pesticide hazards have posed a serious environmental and public health concern since rachel carson published...
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