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The Shelterbelt Project: Cooperative Conservation in 1930s America
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 333–357.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Joel Orth Abstract During the Shelterbelt Project of the 1930s, foresters trained and instilled with Progressive-era values confronted an uncooperative public and nature on the Great Plains. Foresters assumed planting trees in shelterbelts was primarily a scientific and technical task. However...
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Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, Cesar Chavez, The Farmworker Movement: 1962–1993
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Bonnie Lilienfeld Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, Cesar Chavez, The Farmworker Movement: 1962–1993 , http://www.farmworkermovement.org . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Web Review Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, Cesar Chavez, The Farmworker...
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The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 555–556.
Published: 01 October 2010
... connect with thesemany subfields. JimNorris Rollins College The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Set tlement along the Lower Colorado River. By Robert A. Sauder. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009.298 pp., $44.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0 87417-783-1. Upon arriving in North...
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Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 378–379.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey Charles Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project . By Tim Stroshane . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 234 pp. $32.95 , paperback, ISBN: 978-1-9438-5906-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 378 Agricultural History...
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Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 258–259.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Peter D. Griggs Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885 . By G. Roger Knight . Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press , 2014 . 256 pp., $44.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-922064-98-1. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...
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The Wichita Valley Irrigation Project: Joseph Kemp, Boosterism, and Conservation in Northwest Texas, 1886–1939
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 493–519.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...
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Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 440–442.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Jeffrey Charles Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project . By Tim Stroshane . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 234 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-9438-5906-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 440 Agricultural History...
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Who Should Farm: The Fight to Control Settlement on the Columbia Basin Project
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 448–462.
Published: 01 April 2002
... in Early New Deal," Political Science Quarterly97 (Summer 1982): 255 -78 3 Karen Merrill, "In Search ofthe ’Federal Presence’ in the American West," Western Historical Quarterly30 (Winter1999): 453 , 455 5 U.S. Department ofthe Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia Basin Project Joint...
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The Benefits and Costs of the Columbia Basin Project: Earlier Perspectives and Changing Perceptions
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 463–480.
Published: 01 April 2002
...," Washington Historical Quarterly9 (October1918): 259 -76 C. Brewster
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Projected farm bill spending. Congressional Research Service, “Farm Bill Pr...
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Figure 2. Projected farm bill spending. Congressional Research Service, “Farm Bill Primer: What Is the Farm Bill?,” updated February 22, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12047 .
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Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the nuclear-derived sterile insect technique (SIT). This essay examines the SIT project in Okinawa that began in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa to Japan. The twenty-year-long project required the irradiation and release of fifty-three billion melon flies. Its success helped Okinawa's troubled...
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Irrigation Infrastructure, Technocratic Faith, and Irregularities of Vision: Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in Ghana, 1965–1970
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 311–340.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Shannon Stunden Bower Abstract Between 1965 and 1970, Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) took on an international development project in the newly independent African nation of Ghana. The PFRA was an agency of the federal government responsible for driving mid-twentieth...
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Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., all relief and recovery programs were coordinated by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), a locally run federal agency of the Second New Deal. Between 1935 and 1943, Puerto Rican engineers and workers constructed seven major hydroelectric projects in the Cordillera Central to generate...
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This Land Ain’t My Land: The Eviction of Sharecroppers by the Farm Security Administration
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 323–351.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... The resettlement projects were part of larger efforts to modernize rural America. "Modernization" is a complex process whereby a relatively specific set of assumptions and behaviors make other assumptions and behaviors "wrong, "both morally and pragmatically. The removal of former tenants and their replacement...
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Radiating South: Atomic Agriculture, US-Mexico Relations, and the Screwworm
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on original multisite archival research, this article examines the overlooked role of Mexico in what was a flagship application of the “sterile male technique.” It argues that three main factors shaped this role: Mexico's long-term projects of agricultural and atomic modernization; diplomatic leverage...
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Nitrogen Nation: The Legacy of World War I and the Politics of Chemical Agriculture in the United States, 1916–1933
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Timothy Johnson Abstract In the years before World War I, America's federal government played a very limited role in advanced fertilizer research. This changed after 1916 when lawmakers included a provision in the National Defense Act that funded a swords-to-plowshares project to manufacture...
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A Reluctant Expert: John B. Griffing, Agricultural Missionaries, and the Transformation of Agricultural Development, 1920s–1950s
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Spencer Dean Stewart Abstract This article traces the career of John B. Griffing, an agricultural scientist who engaged in rural development projects in China, Brazil, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. His career serves as a microcosm for the evolution...
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Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights in Twentieth-Century Ecuador
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 159–181.
Published: 01 April 2007
...; it was an arena of competing projects and interests with political officials often at odds with one another. At the same time, subaltern resistance was also not homogeneous, and divisions between Indigenous workers challenge a simplistic picture of a unified counter-hegemonic discourse. As a result, state power...
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Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 391–419.
Published: 01 July 2003
... mistakes in administering the 30 projects it created. A second phase of the bureau’s life began in the 1930s, with the "high dam era." From 1930 into the 1950s, the bureau’s mission became inconsistent as it strived to serve a new constituency, city dwellers and industries on the Pacific Coast, at the same...
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The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering the “Cultural Triangle” in Global Histories of Agricultural Development
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 108–140.
Published: 01 January 2020
... geographer Raymond Crist, this essay traces intellectual traditions of race and nation as early organizing principles in the social and political projects of agricultural development in the Caribbean that laid the foundations for the Green Revolution in Latin America. The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering...
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