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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 476–477.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Timothy Johnson Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina . By Sheperd W. McKinley . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 242 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4924-3 . © the Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Bartow J. Elmore Abstract Digging deep into the history of phosphate mining, this article engages contemporary debates about the environmental sustainability of using Roundup to produce our food by focusing on the front end rather than the back end of the product’s life cycle. Though many people...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., such as the electrical power industry. Monsanto used a clause in the 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act that allowed production of the toxic chemicals for “enclosed systems,” which permitted continued production of the toxic chemicals. The second example comes from Monsanto's Idaho phosphate mining operations...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 July 2015
... roads built, the consequences of the tensions she discusses become especially clear. But even without a full history of travelers, the book is a successful combination of surprising discoveries and original conclusions. Ted ownby University of Mississippi Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 477–478.
Published: 01 July 2015
... most significant contribution is its examination of the work of land miners, mostly former slaves whose lives in the phosphate-producing landscape have mostly escaped scholarly attention. mckinley correctly identifies the task labor system of antebellum rice plantations as essential context...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 168–187.
Published: 01 April 2001
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, Phosphoric Acid, Phosphates, and Phosphatic Fertilizers (New York: Reinhold, 1952 ) Gilbert H.
Collings
, Commercial Fertilizers: Their Sources and Use (Philadelphia: P. Blackiston’s & Son, 1934 ) USDAandTVA, Superphosphate: Its History, Chemistry, and Manufacture (Washington, D.C...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 324–326.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... However, with the mid-twentieth-century dissemination of industrial agriculture, inputs of market-based fertilizers became crucial to achieving the high crop yields people now take for granted. The main raw material for the phosphorus component of these fertilizers is phosphate rock, which is likely...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2015
... policies, discussion of the Blue Revolution (aquaculture), agroecology, analysis that pushes Alfred Crosby s Columbian exchange in other directions, as well as the history of phosphate development, the effects of such industries on the public health of Banaba (a remote island in the South Pacific near...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 78–100.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History , 12 . 96. For more detail on the dependence of New Zealand’s twentieth-century “grasslands revolution” on the extraction of phosphate from Nauru—under British, Australian, and New Zealand administration from 1919—and Ocean Island (now known...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the distribution of calcium and phosphate in the subsoil and archaeological site plans. One of the interesting examples of the use of archaeological investigation to check on oral history concerned the recollection of two sisters. The archaeologists wanted to know the location of the privies on their childhood...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., Cushman decides all of that is not enough. So, he decides to add Japanese fisheries and economic policies, discussion of the Blue Revolution (aquaculture), agroecology, analysis that pushes Alfred Crosby s Columbian exchange in other directions, as well as the history of phosphate development...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., pH Value, and Tilth,” Journal of American Society of Agronomy 39 ( July 1947 ): 623 – 33 ; D. Rhind and U. Tin , “Results of the Continuous Use of an Ammonium Phosphate Fertilizer on Rice in Lower Burma,” Nature 161 ( Jan. 17 , 1948 ): 105 – 106 ; Planning Commission...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 April 2017
... exhibitions also promoted the beneficial effects of su- 226 Agricultural History perphosphates as a significant component of Better Farming. Superphosphates would be used to redress the Mallee s natural deficiency of phosphates in the soil. Living displays demonstrated the usefulness of chemical...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft 26 ( 1911 ): 131n . Thomas meal was a byproduct of steelmaking with a high phosphate content. 7. Helmut Heiber , ed., Reichsführer! Briefe an und von Himmler ( Munich : Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag , 1970 ), 110 . On Himmler's career, see, Peter...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 January 2000
... availability of potash and phosphate fertilizer made possible more efficient use of available nitrogen or stimulated growth of clover hayfields. But the general conclusion is clear: even in the Netherlands, a country with a comparatively high use of chemical fertilizers, animal manure provided by far...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 649–655.
Published: 01 November 2023
... then read a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) document that demonstrates how a failed soil fertility test (tricalcium phosphate fertilizer was accidentally labeled as a soil sample) further severed local trust of federal conservation programs in the larger context of external pressure to adopt commercial...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
... Development .” Agricultural History 94 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 108 – 40 . Marx Karl . Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy . Translated by Nicolaus Martin . London : Vintage , 1973 . McKinley Shepherd W. Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 723–758.
Published: 01 October 2000
... -17 70 Brooks
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, Cattle in the Cotton Field: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998 ), 28 . 72 "Blackland Farmer," Starday SLP 339. 73 Arch Fredric
Blakey
, The Florida Phosphate Industry: A History...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 312–335.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Imperialism and the Politics of Phosphate (Palmerston North, NZ: Massey University, 1982 ) 2 New Zealand Official Handbook (Wellington: Government Printer, 1892 ) New Zealand Official YearBook, 1923 : Thirty-First Issue (Wellington: Government Printer, 1923) 3 Herbert
Guthrie-Smith...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
... increase in urbanization, par ticularly in upland areas that had been relatively isolated before the Civil War. Within agriculture itself, phosphate emerged as a relatively inexpensivefertilizerforsouthernplanters and farmersF. ederal and stateexperimentstationsprovided advice and technicalsupportabout...
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