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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 October 2009
...LISA R. LINDELL Abstract During the Great Depression, with conditions grim, entertainment scarce, and educational opportunities limited, many South Dakota farm women relied on reading to fill emotional, social, and informational needs. To read to any degree, these rural women had to overcome...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 January 2002
...James Rodger Fleming Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820 . Vladimir Janković . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 132 / Agricultural History sive end notes referencing standard primary and secondary sources, personal communications...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 546–547.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Jane Adams Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939 . Richard Godden and Martin Crawford . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall whole new appreciation for the value of reading the built environment closely. Nora Pat Small Eastern...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 358–370.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Football Rivalry,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-Iowa_State_football_rivalry (accessed Dec. 29, 2014). Reading Stone and Steel: Statues as Primary Sources for Agricultural History JAMES C. GIESEN AND ANNE E. MARSHALL Statues, monuments, and other public memorials have long been a rich...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 501–502.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Tina Gianquitto Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden . Michael P. Branch . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 501 Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden. Edited by Michael R Branch. Athens: University of Georgia Press...
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Published: 01 November 2023
figure 1. Reading soil layers on Duke Campus Farm. Photograph courtesy of Emily McGinty.
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 4. Media coverage as Orville Luedtke reads a statement at his farm auction in 1984 in Lucas County, Iowa. The auction was held to satisfy an agreement that Luedtke worked out with creditors. Used with permission from Successful Farming , ©1984. Photography by Glenn Kohler, Meredith
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in The Curious Case of Oscar Lorick: Race, Markets, and Militancy during the Farm Crisis
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. Oscar Lorick's story remains inscribed in the countryside outside of Cochran, Georgia, today. The faded inscriptions read “Live Free or Die,” and “FED RES SYS” with superimposed prohibition sign. Photograph by Bert Way, April 17, 2022.
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 352–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and aquatic operations to pursue a net energy gain in their outputs. Critical reading of three distinct bodies of sources: early modern European agricultural manuals, literature on fish culture compiled in western Latin Christendom, and managerial records of fourteenth-through seventeenth-century fish culture...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 538–565.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., followed in the 1970s by new cultivation techniques, especially replanting with caturra (dwarf variety) bushes. This study offers a close reading of the lived experience of these processes as well as the construction of memories and meanings. It also highlights how profoundly radical some...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 57–76.
Published: 01 July 2012
... a visual literacy that few historians have been trained to exercise. This essay explains some of the reasons for the disciplinary divides that separate objects and their curators from historians and their research agendas. It introduces myriad approaches to reading material culture that have the potential...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 402–425.
Published: 01 July 2015
... analysis to inform audiences about barriers preventing farmwomen from achieving their full potential; it also offered solutions to those problems. Addresses made by Colby and others were foundational to creating a modern image of the farm wife. Read in context with women's oratory on similar topics...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 April 2005
... bought chocolate; but many people bought tea, tobacco, sugar, and salt, evidently at standard levels for contemporary British society. As time went by, a growing range of products appear among purchases, notably many drugs and medications. The evidence is also read for indications of what families made...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 187–222.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of collective memories that blamed New York City for the loss of the county's “best” farms. Reading historical documents as cultural texts, this article brings together the insights of science and technology studies and memory studies to show how residents in the watershed localized a more general politics...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 567–568.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., professor of history at Trinity Christian College, examines the farm press and reading choices to consider changes in rural life at the start of the twentieth century. By 1895 the farm press had become a staple for many rural families, and historians have often used itas a source to examine the issues...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 493–496.
Published: 01 October 2004
... for the first time, an "environmental historian." Undeterred, Texas Tech altered its job advertisement to read "Texas and Environmental History" (probably the only time such a combination has ever been offered which in 1980 effectively reduced their hireable pool to one. DAN FLORES is the A. B. Hammond...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 628–632.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that focus on other foods, such as wheat or coffee, could easily adapt the assignment to their own needs. In the second assignment, students read a brief memoir/how-to manual by a successful and iconoclastic Japanese rice and orange farmer. Whereas the first assignment helped students to extract meaning...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 254–255.
Published: 01 April 2011
... not make for a felicitous cover-to-cover read, but Faulk has done an admirable job of minimizing repetition and clustering the articles thematically. Essays in the first section have an autobiographical tone, as Kirschenmann recounts his decisions first to leave a career in academic theology to return...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 380–381.
Published: 01 July 2005
..., hardback, ISBN 0-8139-2229-1. The Changing Scale of American Agriculture is an easy and pleasant-to-read overview of the progression into the modern era of the changes in animal and animal product industries. Hart's folksy style peppered with anecdotes makes reading the book enjoyable and adds insight...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jayson Otto This book would be a welcome addition to undergraduate general education courses on a wide range of subjects, from food history to philosophical ideas of nature and political concepts of nation building. Moreover, reading works like this encourages professional historians to take...
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