...Elitsa Stoilova Abstract Changes in yogurt production in the first half of the twentieth century were related to the transformation of dairy manufacturing through the incorporation of science and technology into the production process. The modernization of the dairy industry affected yogurt, which...

...SAMUEL GARRIDO Abstract In the early twentieth century California became a big exporter of some agricultural products that, until then, had only been grown on a large scale in the Mediterranean basin. As a result, exports of those products diminished or stagnated in Mediterranean countries...

...Jane Mt. Pleasant Abstract Iroquois maize farmers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced three to five times more grain per acre than wheat farmers in Europe. The higher productivity of Iroquois agriculture can be attributed to two factors. First, the absence of plows in the western...

...Brent D. Shaw The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production . Edited by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 352 pp., $150.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-966572-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... is challenging, but with planning and mindful time management, it is possible. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Can You be a Productive Scholar at a Teaching Institution? Yes, with Mindfulness and Planning MELISSA WALKER The vast majority of new PhDs will spend their academic lives at regional...

...Kendra Smith-Howard Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and India . By Andrea S. Wiley . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 208 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-72905-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... that the major coffee producers coexisted with thousands of small- and medium-scale farmers also dedicated to coffee production. This analysis of the agricultural sector also demonstrates the existence of considerable production for the internal market, and, in many cases, on farms also producing coffee...

...Judkin Browning Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South . By R. Douglas Hurt . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 364 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2001-5. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

...: Institutional Change in US Cotton Production, 1920–1960,” Journal of Economic History 63 (June 2003 ): 447 – 88 ; Olmstead and Rhode , Creating Abundance , 155 – 98 . 24. Olmstead and Rhode , “Hog-Round Marketing,” 447 – 88 ; Olmstead and Rhode , Creating Abundance...

...Abraham Gibson Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts . By Amy J. Fitzgerald . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2015 . 210 pp., $44.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-61186-174-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017...

... rapid. But as this study warns, economic success may pro? vide neither political nor social stability. Parks M. Coble University of Nebraska-Lincoln A Hertfordshire Demesne ofWestminster Abbey: Profits, Productivity, and Weather. By D. V. Stern. Herts, Eng.: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001. 224...

...Béatrice Craig; Judith Rygiel; Elizabeth Turcotte The Homespun Market-Oriented in the Nineteenth Paradox: Production of Cloth in Eastern Canada Century BEATRICE CRAIG, JUDITH RYGIEL, ELIZABETH TURCOTTE Domestic manufacturing and outwork in the European countryside has gen? erated a tremendous...

.... There was an increase in pork whereas other animal products were unchanged or reduced, especially the total production of milk. At the same time, the Swedish population increased, which meant a decline in total output per capita. This was, however, no problem as Sweden was already self-sufficient in food...

...Margaret Yates Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-East: The Evidence from Tithes, 1270-1536 . Ben Dodds . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall PeasantsandProductioninthMe edieval North-East:TheEvidencefrom Tithes,1270-1536.By Ben Dodds...

... economic areas inspired Mao to launch an industrialization program that would push the People’s Republic past Great Britain in some production categories within fifteen years. Beginning in 1958 Mao imposed unrealistic targets on Chinese grain production to extract funds from agriculture for rapid...

...JOSEPH M. HODGE Abstract This article draws attention to the unfolding debate concerning forest cover loss, climatic change, and declining cocoa production in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) during the early twentieth century. It argues that, although desiccationist theory was prevalent, its...

...David B. Hollander Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East . Michael Decker . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall already easily available in recent paperback editions of the collections in which...

... analysis of Caribbean sugar plantations and rum production, this article’s perspective necessarily relegates them to the fringe of the historical conversation. The preponderance of work on early modern sugar plantations took place at the nexus of human labor and environmental processes. When we understand...

... further created an effective medium through which agricultural improvements were rapidly disseminated among the rural population. These special events had an important role in generating and spreading new production knowledge in the conditions of an underdeveloped economy. © 2018 Agricultural History...

.... By testing three hypotheses referring to the degree of commercial orientation, levels of intensity regarding various inputs, and the spatial configuration of field systems, the paper concludes that the productive profiles of these estates did not conform very closely to the expectations of von Thunen’s model...