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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 July 2001
... intent and willful negligence," Weekend Nation , 27 March1992, 8A Gordon Matthews ’ assertion that "politicians on both sides of the political spectrum have said [that they] do not support white planters" in Barbados Advocate , 24 August1991 3 Richard S. Dunn , Sugar...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 282–284.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Thomas Summerhill The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America . By James L. Huston . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University , 2015 . 376 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-5918-7. © 2016...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 286–288.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Sally G. McMillen Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 . Richard Follett . Agricultural History Spring The second group comprised English agricultural laborers and unskilled workers tired of low...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 309–332.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Russell R. Menard Abstract This essay develops an American approach to the rise of the English Atlantic during the seventeenth century. It argues that productivity gains in plantation agriculture fueled an extraordinary expansion of commerce as planters raising tobacco, sugar, and rice improved...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 471–492.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Jason Morgan Ward Abstract During World War II, the POW labor program provided cotton planters in the lower Mississippi Valley with a temporary yet timely solution to an increasingly mobile local labor supply. While war prisoners worked in a variety of crops and non-agricultural industries, one...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 349–372.
Published: 01 July 2011
...,” 88 . Colonialism, Planters, Sugarcane, and The Agrarian Economy of Caguas, Puerto Rico, Between the 1890s and 1930 JOSÉ O. SOLÁ This article presents new research on the impact and consequences of the incorporation of Puerto Rico into the American economic sphere of influence and how much change...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 268–269.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Royden Loewen Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada . By Cornelius J. Jaenen . Calgary : University of Calgary Press , 2011 . 354 pp., $41.95 , paperback, 978-1-55238-258-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Vaughn Scribner Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 . By Trevor Burnard . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0–226-28610-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 362–385.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Kelly Kean Sharp Abstract Agricultural and environmental historians of the US South have in the last three decades focused on planters’ engagement with scientific pursuits as a means toward financial and environmental improvement. But in focusing on these failed attempts of conservation husbandry...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 381–406.
Published: 01 July 2007
... within the Atlantic economy. This essay examines the changing perceptions and uses of trees as the key to understanding how planters transformed a perceived wilderness into one of British America’s wealthiest and most repressive plantation societies. Colonists used trees to assess and understand...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
...John Majewski; Viken Tchakerian Abstract Farmers and planters in the antebellum South held large tracts of unimproved land because they practiced shifting cultivation. Southern cultivators burned tracts of forest growth to quickly release nutrients into the soil. After five or six years, when...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 466–492.
Published: 01 October 2004
... amounted to something of a paradox. The county’s planters were thoroughly embedded in the larger Chesapeake plantation society and replicated, insofar as they were able, the features of that society, including the use of slave labor and cultivation of tobacco. Yet poor soil conditions pushed residents...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 388–401.
Published: 01 July 2015
... those faced on the classic cotton plantation. This was most obvious in the role of women as prime workers of the crop, but includes gender politics that omitted the white planter family, and the meaning of space. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. The author wishes...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in Jamaica. By the mid-1920s Panama disease had reached large banana plantations as well, and many planters, like smallholders a decade prior, responded by turning their plantations into sugar, rather than banana, monocultures. By the end of World War II, as a result of Panama disease, along...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
Published: 01 October 2014
... materials to enlighten existing methods of agricultural research. This essay expands upon the application of E. McClung Fleming's model for material culture analysis and offers a methodological case study using extant examples of Deere & Company's No. 999 Two-Row Planter. It suggests the ways...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 103–112.
Published: 01 February 2024
... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2008 . Burnard Trevor . Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . Carney Judith . In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 609–647.
Published: 01 July 2000
..., "The Planter Class and the British West Indian Sugar Production, before and after Emancipation," Economic History Review, 2nd series, 26, no. 3 (1973): 461 Kerr, Pioneer Pageant, 27, 32 15 Queenslander (Brisbane) (hereafter Q\ 29March1873, 12 16 Charles Bernays , Queensland Politics...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 287–289.
Published: 01 May 2022
... In Eliza Lucas Pinckney , Lorri Glover convincingly demonstrates that the eponymous subject of this work was—despite her sex—a planter-patriarch in her own right. From a young age, Eliza's efforts as a planter-patriarch were galvanized by the same motivation as her male counterparts: duty to and protection...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... Cloud and the ’American Cotton Planter,’" Agricultural History31 (July1957): 44 -49 Robert W. Williams, "Thomas Affleck: Missionary to the Planter, the Farmer, and the Gardener," Agricultural History31 (July1957): 40 -48 7 Johnson, Southern Commercial Conventions, 1-12. 8 Eugene D...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 152–153.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and development, historians have overlooked inland rice cultivation or have viewed it as a primitive stage of rice cultivation when compared to tidal cultivation. Rather, as Smith's work demonstrates, inland rice cultivation required planters and enslaved laborers to exercise precise knowledge of topography...