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The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 557–559.
Published: 01 October 2013
...James Lapsley The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years . By Thomas Pinney . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 311 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26953-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews pigs. The six...
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Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Robert Gudmestad Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones . George Noble Jones , Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones...
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Enclosure Records for Historians
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 376–377.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Kenneth F. Cox Enclosure Records for Historians . Steven Hollowell . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 376 / Agricultural History Enclosure Records for Historians. By Steven Hollowell. Chichester, U.K.: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 2000. 175 pp., ?15.99, hardback, ISBN 1...
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in Beekeeping from the South: The Yucatán Peninsula's “Industrious Bee” and the Rise of Modern Apiculture
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 4. Geographic distribution of beehives recorded in the census of 1878.
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A “Complicated Humbug”: Slavery, Capitalism, and Accounts in the Cotton South
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 36–68.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Ian Beamish Abstract This essay argues that enslavers in the mid-nineteenth-century cotton South were interested in keeping detailed records but had minimal interest in advanced accounting methods. Drawing on the record and account books produced by Thomas Affleck in Mississippi in the 1840s...
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Interpreting Agricultural Activities in Historical Aerial Photographs
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Graham Callaway Abstract Historical aerial photographs from the early twentieth century have great interpretive potential for understanding the agricultural landscapes they record. In addition to building a chronology of farm layout, historical images can record particular crops and other...
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The Journal of James Wilson: An Insight into Life in North East Scotland Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Peter Hillis Abstract In the nineteenth century many farmers kept a diary of the farming year to record such features as the weather, crop yields, animal husbandry, and prices. Research into church and people in the parishes of Fordyce and Portsoy in North East Scotland led to the discovery...
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A Nineteenth–Century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty–First Century
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 October 2004
...-searchable data-bases and resources (such as land records) and discusses the impact of personal and family characteristics on persistence and the likelihood of record linkage within the sample townships using a panel from a completed subsection of the project. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society...
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Making Land and Water Meet: The Cycling of Nutrients between Fields and Ponds in Pre-Modern Europe
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 352–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
...RICHARD C. HOFFMANN; VERENA WINIWARTER Abstract Medieval and early modern records show certain practices were common in traditional European aquaculture. These, combined with advice in coeval treatises on agricultural management, demonstrate how European agroecosystems linked terrestrial...
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The Southern Great Plains Wind Erosion Maps of 1936–1937
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 540–559.
Published: 01 October 2011
...-two thousand square miles—this survey represents our best record of land use and soil erosion at the peak of the 1930s crisis. The project generated well-designed and information-rich maps for each county, but their graphic nature and large size has left them virtually unknown to agricultural...
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Running Amuck? Urban Swine Management in Late Medieval England
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 429–451.
Published: 01 October 2013
... that the authorities attempted to control the movement, feeding, and slaughter of swine as much as possible to circumvent damage to goods, crops, and even people. Urban government and court records from the most populous English urban centers as well as smaller towns from the end of the thirteenth century through...
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The New Egypt, Pima Cotton, and the Role of Native Wage Labor on the Cooperative Testing and Demonstration Farm, Sacaton, Arizona, 1907–1917
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 491–516.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of their economic participation. Examination of the bureaus' records and extant testimonies of Pima leaders deepens contemporary understanding of the common aims of government officials and Pima farmers, the sources of tension among these stakeholders, and the mechanisms by which Pima laborers adapted economic...
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To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 228–257.
Published: 01 April 2007
... support for Israel’s agrarian economy and steady growth in agricultural production. Seven key factors are identified as being critical to this record of success, including a commitment to food security, water development, and technological innovation. Yet, during the past twenty years numerous changes...
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Uncovering the Subsistence Economy in the Twentieth-Century South: Blue Ridge Mountain Farms
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
... of the mountain landscape that surrounded them, tended to rely on less invasive, century-old technologies to work their fields. Although contemporaries widely disparaged this way of life, the records of these communities reflect a long history of viability and suggest that the ecological basis of upcountry...
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"Fifty–Four Days Work of Two Negroes": Enslaved Labor in Colonial Somerset County, Maryland
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 466–492.
Published: 01 October 2004
... that linked economic activity in the county to markets elsewhere in the colonies. Russo examines the allocation of enslaved labor in Somerset’s diversified economy using information drawn from judicial, tax, probate, and land records. Consideration of the evidence for Somerset County indicates that scholars...
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Thomas Minor’s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 496–518.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Virginia Dejohn Anderson Abstract For over thirty years (1653-1685), Thomas Minor kept a diary recording his activities as a farmer in Stonington, Connecticut. This article uses Minor’s diary, the only extant document of its kind for the seventeenth century, to reconstruct key features...
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The Limits of Alliance: Cold War Solidarity and Canadian Wheat Exports to China, 1950–1963
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC’s use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian...
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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
...JANE ADAMS; D. GORTON Abstract The New Deal resettlement communities appear in the literature as efforts to ameliorate the wretched condition of southern sharecroppers and tenants.However, those evicted to make way for the new settlers are virtually invisible in the historic record...
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The Agricultural Extension Service and Non-Whites in California, 1910–1932
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 506–530.
Published: 01 October 2010
..." that included a non-white laboring class. Records show that AES personnel contributed by helping to separate Native Americans from their land and water resources, prevent competition from immigrants from Asia, and Americanize non-whites. The Agricultural Extension Service and Non-Whites inCalifornia, 1910-1932...
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Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918–1981
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 342–368.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... Linked together over time, these farm-level surveys offer a detailed record of the residential and land-use histories of three communities, and they begin to illustrate how farm households met the challenges of the drought years and adjusted to the new agriculture in the post–World War II era. © 2017...
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