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...Jim Norris I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande & the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant . Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson , James A. McAllen , and Margaret H. McAllen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 110 / Agricultural History...

... and 1850s, it shows that enslavers largely used plantation books to record and track many aspects of cotton slavery rather than using them for advanced accounting. Enslavers held tens of thousands of enslaved people on plantations managed with the use of the Affleck books, making the books’ attempts...

... reorganization of colonial Korea. Yet, the colonial government by no means remained as an oppressive and extractive power only. Rather, it continued to reformulate the colonial system by interacting with different responses from the colonialized. Focusing on the influence of the legal enforcement of agricultural...

... in Jamaica. By the mid-1920s Panama disease had reached large banana plantations as well, and many planters, like smallholders a decade prior, responded by turning their plantations into sugar, rather than banana, monocultures. By the end of World War II, as a result of Panama disease, along...

... in a democratic state is inherently multifaceted: political and social realities demand equal billing with technical ones, and natural and scientific uncertainties require that conservation planning be a process, rather than an immediate solution. Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Notes...

... could be transformed into concentrate rather than destroyed. Thus, FCOJ appeared to rationalize the Florida orange industry in the 1950s, eliminating seasonal and annual swings in production and stabilizing prices and profits. However, when severe frosts attacked Florida groves in 1957-58 and again...

...David Vaught Abstract This essay examines three classic Mexican land grants along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley--Rio de los Putos, Los Putos, and Laguna de Santos Callé. The first was confirmed rather routinely, the second was a "floating" claim, and the third was an out and out fraud...

... market. Consequently, as the product of a true plantation economy, tobacco is not apart from, but rather fully within, the larger plantation worlds of the nineteenth-century Atlantic. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 NOTES 1. Alexander von Humboldt, The Island of Cuba: A Political...

... of strength, peace, and prosperity but rather one of fear and violence. Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Notes 1 Des Moines Register , Oct. 28 , 1932 , p. 1 Des Moines Tribune , Nov. 12 , p. 1 Nov. 14, p. 1,5 Knoxville Express , June 23 , p. 1 ,7 June 30, p. 1...

... and the organization of the industry. It expanded rapidly, not because of any natural advantage in soil or climate, but rather because it fit well with the needs of small, and often poor, farmers raising a variety of crops. It peaked during the 1920s and 1930s and faded a generation later. Canning largely disappeared...

... is inconsistent with the commission’s report. Rather than offering a technocratic program to engineer agriculture and country life, the report is one of the first high-profile, comprehensive attempts to outline a broad-gauge vision of sustainability in American agriculture. It reflects an ecological sensitivity...

...-environmental model of disease transmission, rather than the premises of desiccation science, that the government’s postwar "cutting out campaign" of cocoa was predicated. Nevertheless, the foresters ’ correlation of the deterioration of cocoa areas with fears of desiccation was not without its effects on state...

... the rising cost of agrochemicals compelled Maya to return to plantation labor in the 1970s, synthetic fertilizers simply shifted, rather than alleviated, Mayan dependency on the cash economy. By highlighting Mayan farmers’ historical narratives and delineating the relationship between agricultural science...

...Bartow J. Elmore Abstract Digging deep into the history of phosphate mining, this article engages contemporary debates about the environmental sustainability of using Roundup to produce our food by focusing on the front end rather than the back end of the product’s life cycle. Though many people...

... the peasants themselves. The article further argues that Gómez Morín’s ideas changed rather dramatically when put into practice. Administrators were concerned with the pragmatic issues of making sure ejidatarios amortized their debts appropriately and applied their loans to the crops the federal government...

...Shane Hamilton Abstract The field of agricultural history could benefit from interdisciplinary engagement with theoretical work. Rather than chiding agricultural historians for avoiding theory, this essay suggests specific ways in which many agricultural historians are already engaging with theory...

..., and an increased use of artificial fertilizers, which were valued for their time-saving potential rather than their yield-increasing effects. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. I am grateful to three anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. An early version of this article...

... practice in time and space can all be explored in medieval manuscript art. Medieval illuminations can, under the right conditions, give us new knowledge about agricultural practice rather than serving as simple “illustrations” of agricultural history known from textual sources. © the Agricultural History...

..., however, the original land-grant universities have forgotten, perhaps even abandoned, their initial mission. Rather than offering opportunity to the diverse pastiche that comprises America, they now seek glory for themselves by coveting only the best students. In the process, their historic role...

... there exhausted and disillusioned flood refugees rather than integrating them more fully into the modern nation state. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. Wang Ruiying and Jin Tianshun , “Weishi: An yijia de beican zaoyu,” in 1942: Henan da jihuang , ed. Song Zhixin...