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.... On the conceptual and analytical problems involved in situating the geo-body of Burma in Asia, see, for example, Jonathan Saha, “Is It in India? Colonial Burma as a ‘Problem’ in South Asian History,” South Asian History and Culture 7, no. 1 (Jan. 2016): 23-29; David Vumlallian Zou and M. Satish Kumar, “Mapping...

...Alasdair Ross Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited . Edited by Jane Whittle . Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . 256 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-84383-850-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews...

...Yan Gao The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China . By David A. Pietz . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter on artificial...

... secoli, 79 32 Luethy, "Outlines," 127–60 Ricuperati, Il Settecento, 810–12, 817–18 Hanns Gross , Rome in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 ), 164 The Problem Eighteenth-century of Leasefarming Piedmont in and Lombardy DANIEL M.KLANG...

...Harry C. McDean American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980 . Jon Lauck . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 371 thony Patrick O'Brien argues persuasively that from 1860 to 1900 the black-white...

...., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999), chpt. 5, 209-46; C. L. Marlatt, "Need of National Control of Imported Nursery Stock," Journal of Economic Entomology 4 (Feb. 1911): 107-24. 29 W. A. Orton, "Plant Quarantine Problems," Journal of Economic Entomology 7 (Feb. 1914); Orton, "The Biological Basis...

...ANNE EFFLAND Abstract This address is an exploration of a lifetime of disparate and often conflicting observations about how different people view what is right and good for agriculture, food, and farmers around the world. The exploration utilizes the concept of wicked problems to focus...

... farming activity on its steep slopes, soil erosion has been a problem since the turn of the twentieth century. Erosion threatened the long-term viability of farming in the Palouse and the economic health of greater eastern Washington. Local efforts at stemming the problem were nonexistent in the 1910s...

... attempts at land improvement in this area. These primarily involved the expansion of agricultural areas, intensive land cultivation, and introduction of new field crops. However, agricultural production in the communist period, especially until the mid-1960s, was not market-oriented; therefore problems...

... in attempting to solve a problem that continues to affect New Zealand farmers, killing according to one estimate between 10 and 15 percent of their stock annually. Second, it addresses a related problem that has a much longer history of human poisoning, but that turned out to have quite unexpected causes in New...

... manufacturing while controlling inflation through intervention in the agricultural sector. In time, agrarian poverty led to a rural exodus, with the population of farm households dipping below 50 percent for the first time in 1969. In part because of these rapid shifts in population and production, the problems...

...Silvia Secchi Abstract From its inception, US settler agriculture has used extractive and unsustainable practices. Farm bill agricultural conservation policy since the 1930s has been based on largely ineffective approaches unable to address the environmental problems caused by agriculture...

...; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the “labor problem” in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that peach production depended on the cotton economy. Peaches required large amounts of labor only at harvest time, which came during a lull...

... parishes—one devoted to cotton production, the other to sugar. Data from these parishes and elsewhere in Louisiana suggests several problems with Ransom and Sutch's conclusions, especially their famous “territorial monopoly” thesis. Moreover, the superior performance of sugar parish stores underscores...

...Jeffrey Filipiak Abstract When Wendell Berry and others criticize contemporary agriculture, their arguments are often dismissed as naïve and grounded in longstanding agrarian myth, rather than engagement with contemporary problems. But Berry's proposals developed in response to a series of learning...

... students well, to loving what you do, and helping students to navigate the realities of the job market. Additionally, the article examines the problems and possibilities of advising students in agricultural/ rural history, an area with which many of our peers in history departments are largely unfamiliar...

... retained an agrarian foundation, such as on-farm recreation, would solve multiple societal problems, including rural poverty, the disappearance of the small farm, agricultural surplus, lack of outdoor recreational space for urban and suburban Americans, and urban blight. This article explains how and why...

... of their skills in examining other practical problems facing rural people. © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 NOTES 1. My thanks to Jessica Oswalt for her help with the early research on this project and Carlton Basmajian who read and commented upon much of this in the form of our USDAAFRI...

... for doing so. They made changes to their production practices because of specific problems they encountered with the conventional system. In the 1980s several pioneering farmers turned to on-farm processing and sold their dairy products in alternative retail outlets. They were also instrumental...

... it possible for orange juice processors to provide consumers with a uniform-quality product year-round. By the mid-1950s constantly rising consumer demand for FCOJ had essentially eliminated Florida orange growers’ constant surplus problem. Furthermore, many oranges that suffered from occasional winter frosts...