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...Olivia Saucier Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 . By Kendra Smith-Howard . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 240 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-989912-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews Pure and Modern...

...Jonathan Rees Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food . By Benjamin R. Cohen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . 320 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-7792-6. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 394 Agricultural History...

...Neil Oatsvall Abstract While most stories of splitting the atom—from Chernobyl to Fukushima and Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands—revolve around images of pure destruction and human misery, the truth is that a much more complicated relationship has existed between nuclear technologies and human...

... Cultures, Construction de la Nature: Agriculture, Foresterie et Entomologie au Canada, 1884-1959. By St6phane Castonguay. Sillery, Qu6bec: Septentrion, 2004. 370 pp., no price available, paperback, ISBN 2-89448-377-5. For the historian of science interested in the interactions between pure and applied...

...: Agriculture, Foresterie et Entomologie au Canada, 1884-1959. By St6phane Castonguay. Sillery, Qu6bec: Septentrion, 2004. 370 pp., no price available, paperback, ISBN 2-89448-377-5. For the historian of science interested in the interactions between pure and applied science, as well as science and the state...

... examined is how postwar changes in agri culture forced Americans?producers and consumers alike?to redefine what constituted pure food and revise their role in upholding it.No food was more central to these profound changes in defining purity thanmilk. Prone to spoilage and easily adulterated, milk...

... Gilded Age Populism into a modern context. Matthew Hild Georgia Institute of Technology Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food. By Benjamin R. Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 320 pp., $35.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-7792-6. Good food writing makes you...

.... It is a study of breeding in relation to traditional and scientific views. Pig breeding in the Netherlands was similar to and yet different from chicken breeding. Pig breeding ended up being a strange blend of pure breeding, crossbreeding, and hybrid breeding. Private companies came into existence in order...

... from the turn of the twentieth century to today. She examines the path to the first federal food safety law, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, and how subsequent amendments and refinements have done little to make the foods Americans eat safer. She argues that there are technical fixes to improve...

... in the past by crossing Shires on Clydes. 89 In response to the American accusation that he purchased English mares and sold their foals as pure Clydes, Drew responded, “I never in my life misrepresented the pedigree of any animal I sold. . . . The fusion of English blood has greatly improved...

... them, but there are no good substitutes. on a purely commercial note, From Prairie to Cornbelt went into subsequent editions, ultimately being published by Chicago, Wiley-blackwell, and ivan dee, a feat that few authors of academic history manage. late in his career, al brought his story full circle...

... History 51 , no. 1 ( January 1977 ): 200 – 208 . Smith Mark M. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Smith-Howard Kendra . Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History . Oxford : Oxford...

....: Government Printing Office, 1903 ), 540 "The Acre Yield of Corn," Wallaces’ Farmer41 (7 January1916): 4 Henry Wallace , "The Acre Yield of Corn," Wallaces’ Farmer41 (10 March1916): 5 30 R. A. Moore , " Wisconsin Pure Bred Seed Grains ," Proceeding of the 29th Annual...

... selection. It was not difficult for the beef breeders to do so under the purebred system, since Milking Shorthorns were still recognized as pure Shorthorns. Little headway seemed to result from this breeding strategy, and North American Shorthorn breeders began looking to importation from Europe instead...

...; see A. Barrington and K. Pearson , “On the Inheritance of Coat Color in Cattle. I. Shorthorn Crosses and Pure Shorthorns,” Biometrica 4 ( 1906 ): 427 – 37 . Agricultural college professors in the late nineteenth century saw the breeding of Shorthorns as livestock genetics, and pedigree...

... and London, 1600 to the Present , ed. Christelle Rabier et al. ( Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars , 2007 ), 317 – 38 ; Graeme Gooday , '“Vague and Artificial': The Historically Elusive Distinction between Pure and Applied Science,” Isis 103 ( Sept. 2012 ): 546 – 54 . 4. For similar...

.... The Desert Laboratory was distinctive inasmuch as it was the only purely research organization among this group. As ecology s theoretical development was of primary significance to her, its agricultural applications were essentially immaterial. Consequently, while she acknowledged that in the early stages...

... experiments designed to find answers took place between 1906 and 1969. Results were inconclusive, providing little incentive for the dairy industry to abandon purebred breeding.44 (By 1980 it was evident that no crossbreeding of Holsteins showed improved production over pure Holsteins. They exceeded...

... to move away from a purely article format. I would like to introduce round- tables, panel discussions, retrospectives on seminal books, and historio- graphical features occasionally. Also, I plan to expand the review section to include more reviews of movies, web pages, and museum exhibits. In addition, I...

... at work today. The history of milk has been told many times, but in Pure and Modern Milk, SmithHoward s fresh perspective helps us understand changes in farm production and consumer awareness, as well as the complexities of our reliance on nature even as we go to great lengths to transform it. olivia...