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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 293–294.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Shane Hamilton Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America . By Jonathan Rees . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . 248 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 6. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and railroads revolved around higher costs associated with refrigerated cars like the one seen here. But the near monopoly of refrigerator cars held by companies like Armour & Co. of meat-packing fame left
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 6. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and railroads revolved around higher costs associated with refrigerated cars like the one seen here. But the near monopoly of refrigerator cars held by companies like Armour & Co. of meat-packing fame left...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 323–324.
Published: 01 April 2015
... on food marketing, labeling, and consumption, again over five chapters. 323 Agricultural History Spring The main unifying theme in The Food Industries of Europe is technological change and innovation. Multiple authors discuss how canning, refrigeration, and other technologies facilitated mass production...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 292–293.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in shaping rural society an insight relevant to many other places. it will be a valuable book for scholars in many fields, from agricultural history and gender history to the history of the american West and asian american history. Connie Y. Chiang Bowdoin College Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 324–326.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Spring The main unifying theme in The Food Industries of Europe is technological change and innovation. Multiple authors discuss how canning, refrigeration, and other technologies facilitated mass production and wider trade networks for new and familiar foods, while also influencing nutritional standards...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 April 2007
... for children, in town and country alike during World War II. The third section, explored such diverse issues as refrigeration and the meat crisis in Italy during World War I; living off the fruits of the countryside in Scotland during World War II; the fruits of the forest in Finland in the twentieth century...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 532–533.
Published: 01 October 2001
.... Rather, they favored lights over electrical appliances, and used the latter sparingly or in ways that fit the rhythms of the farm household. Outside of the South, many farm households only used their refrigerators in the summer, and one Missouri farm wife found her electric clothes-wringer to be a dandy...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 109–110.
Published: 01 April 2012
... their early experimentation with cross breeding, which made it easier for small-scale farmers to sell on the British meat market (once refrigeration technology had been established). Finally, Peden acknowledges that luck also played a part in the runholders financial success: for instance, J. B. Acland, Mt...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2013
... that, grassland . . . is one of the corner-stones . . . of the British Empire (1). The empire famous for its navy, in fact, depended more on products of grasslands for its wealth and expansion. First wool, then later with refrigeration, meat and dairy, the products of distant grassland landscapes became the ties...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 631–632.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., refrigeration plants, and housing for workers. Fundamental to continuing growth at Seabrook Farms was the decision to furnish General Foods with high-quality fruits and vegeta? bles frozen under the Birdseye label. Seabrook Farms thus became one of the first large growers of produce for America's brand-new...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 579–580.
Published: 01 October 2007
... thousand trees. Traditionally, most of the crop was exported to nearby Turkey and Egypt. However, by the end of the century an increasing number of oranges were sold toEurope as, in the days before refrigerated transport, their skins were thick enough to prevent drying up on a long voyage. At this stage...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... mastodon in the Arctic, Adam became fascinated with preserving food through refrigeration. To test his idea, he packed lettuce in ice and stored it in an icebox to see how long it would GABRIELLA M. PETRICK is an assistantprofessor of nutritionand food studies at New York University where she...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 269–270.
Published: 01 April 2008
... nearby in themunicipal slaughterhouse and slaughtered shortly before consumption. It was only with the neo-liberal reforms of the late 1990s, he argues, thatMexicans turned to eating refrigerated meat killed long distances from consumers, similar to their neighbors to the north. RogerHorowitz Hagley...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 January 2008
... the mid-1800s and the firstdecades of the twentieth century. This is, inmany ways, a modernist success story that links technological innovations in the slaughtering, refrigeration, distribution, and retailing ofmeat to itsgrowing presence within American diets during the late 1800s and early 1900s...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 366–392.
Published: 01 July 2008
... the investmenmtade in thecattlesectorthroughbreed ing,planting,and theintroductioonfotherimprovementMs,ato Grosso ranchingconsistentlysuffereda deficitcomparedtootherregionsof the countryR. ail transportexisted,but even intothe1950s therewere too few cars to transport live animals and no refrigerated cars at all...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472.
Published: 01 October 2006
... to improvefood safety,even in the context of economic competition amongfood producers,processors,and retailers(270,273). Nestle's account,to her credit,is not simplya story of raw economics.National identity is intricatelyinvolved in food safety.Afforded the benefits of pasteurization,refrigeration,antibiotics...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 April 2012
... 2012 Agricultural History Spring breed by highlighting their early experimentation with cross breeding, which made it easier for small-scale farmers to sell on the British meat market (once refrigeration technology had been established). Finally, Peden acknowledges that luck also played a part...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 533–535.
Published: 01 October 2001
... farm households only used their refrigerators in the summer, and one Missouri farm wife found her electric clothes-wringer to be a dandy pea-sheller. Electric stoves never caught on and were eclipsed by bottled gas appliances, and, except for dairy and poultry operations, farmers did not buy much...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 706–708.
Published: 01 October 2002
... of the telephone, electric stove, indoor plumbing, and toilet. Her correspondence praised furnace heat, modern lighting, and refrigeration for the home, although she dreaded the additional expenses engendered by the modern conveniences. She celebrated the virtues of democracy while critiquing the march...
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