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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 568–599.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the widespread use of enslaved labor. As a conceptually reconfigured site, Pinar del Río offers a new narrative of Cuban tobacco, one that identifies and understands the area as an additional site of slave commodity production in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Through a pattern of interconnected...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Sterling Evans Abstract For nearly sixty years, roughly 1880 to 1950, before the affordability and wide-spread use of combines, grain production in the American and Canadian Great Plains was dependent on harvesting with binders. Binders cut the grain stalks and then tied them into bundles...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 383–384.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Mark Coyne Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production . Vaclav Smil . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 383 nessing water power to produce scythes for farmers, spindles for textile mills, and cotton...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 370–371.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Hans Christian Wien Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas . Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 536–537.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the fifteenthcentury-a traditionally difficultperiod to research-looking for characteristic signs of growth and expansion. Dodds has developed a rigorous methodological approach to the docu mentary sources and the information that can reasonably be derived on 536 2008 BookReviews productivity and output frommedieval...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 51–78.
Published: 01 January 2009
... 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...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
...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...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 544–545.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. By Michael Decker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 368 pp., $135.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-956528-3. Michael Decker's monograph examines late antique agriculture in the Roman diocese of Oriens, an administrative unit stretching along the Mediterranean...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2002
...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...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 559–583.
Published: 01 October 2015
.... 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...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 April 2015
...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...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 22–50.
Published: 01 January 2016
... 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...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 569–584.
Published: 01 April 2000
... -3 " Research Supports Increases in Pork Production ," NCSUALS, 1963 Annual Report , Raleigh, 1964 , 12 -13 Gilbert C. Fite , Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865–1980 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1984 ) Flowers, Throwed Away, 58-64 Belden, Dirt Rich...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 460–492.
Published: 01 October 2011
...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...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 68–90.
Published: 01 April 2012
... was the effort to raise the standard of living for the county's rural poor through increasing home-farm production and improving diet. The initiative entailed active intervention by Farm Security Administration farm and home supervisors and illustrates the tension between the desire to promote independence among...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 132–134.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Don Garden Global Industry, Local Innovation: The History of Cane Sugar Production in Australia, 1820–1995 . By Peter D. Griggs . Bern : Peter Lang , 2011 . 964 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-3-0343-0431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 144–169.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., and Industrial Capitalism,” Past and Present 38 ( Dec. 1967 ): 56 – 97 , shows how a new sense of work time was critical to industrialization. For a broader description of social space and the construction of spatial systems, see, Henri Lefebvre , The Production of Space , trans. Donald...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 541–543.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Russell Pryor Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore: The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s . By Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2012 . 206 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7618-5876-8 . ©...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
...: The United Nations, the Developing World, and Atomic Energy's Green Revolution,” History and Technology 25 : 1 ( 2009 ): 27 , 40 , 42 . Agricultural History Summer Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945 1960 NEIL OATSVALL While...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 54–77.
Published: 01 January 2018
... May 10, 2015 ). Genetics, Biotechnology, and Breeding: North American Shorthorn Production in the Twenty-First Century MARGARET DERRY This article examines the controversy over the use of a DNA marker test for Tibial Hemimelia (TH) by North American Shorthorn breeders. The conflict illustrates...