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Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

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Mark B. Tauger
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 416–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.3.416
Published: 01 July 2013
...Mark B. Tauger Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation . By Edward B. Barbier . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 766 pp., $49.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-70165-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...
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A Nineteenth–Century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty–First Century

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Jeremy Atack
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.4.389
Published: 01 October 2004
...Jeremy Atack Abstract The paper announces the imminent availability of a major extension of the well-known Bateman-Foust sample. This new resource will contain linked agricultural and population census data between 1850 and 1880 for thousands of individuals in an expanded group of townships...
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Lead in the Water: Power, Progressivism, and Resource Control in a Missouri Mining Community

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Bob Faust
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 405–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.405
Published: 01 April 2002
..., WHMC-Rolla. 32 Guess to Holland, 31 April 1913, collection 250, WHMC-Rolla. Lead in the Water: Power, Progressivism, and Resource in a Missouri Mining Community Control BOB FAUST In October 1913, the St. Joseph Lead Company ceased providing free drink? ing water to the public schools in Bonne...
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Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future

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Edward D. Melillo
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 565–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.4.565
Published: 01 October 2013
...Edward D. Melillo Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future . Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, and Kenneth Hermele . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 312 pp., $49.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-64308-5 . © the Agricultural...
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources

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James A. Vlasich
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 298–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.298
Published: 01 April 2007
...James A. Vlasich Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources . M. Kat Anderson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring ences of middle-class white women in the borderlands, whose "civilizing...
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Cookbooks as Resources for Rural Research

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Rebecca Sharpless
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 195–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.2.195
Published: 01 April 2016
... County Home Demonstration Clubs' Cook Book , 34 , 62 . 23. Fannin County Home Demonstration Clubs' Cook Book , 7 , 80 . 24. Texas Almanac and Industrial Guide 1933 , 52 , 57 . Cookbooks as Resources for Rural Research REBECCA SHARPLESS Cookbooks as printed primary sources can...
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Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times

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Nancy K. Berlage
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 401–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.3.401
Published: 01 July 2016
...Nancy K. Berlage Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times . Edited by Sharon Y. Nickols and Gwen Kay . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . 272 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4807-0 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...
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The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Mark E. Frank
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 692–694.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.4.692
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark E. Frank Book Reviews The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China. By Peter B. Lavelle. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 304 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 9780231194709. The Profits of Nature is empire history with a personal...
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The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective

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Patrick Bresnihan
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 559–560.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.559
Published: 01 October 2016
..., along with the wellproduced graphs and tables that illustrate them. This thoughtful, fruitful compendium is a great tribute to the enduring richness of Campbell s work. Tom Johnson University of York The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective...
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Water Quality in the Natural Resources Conservation Service: An Historical Overview

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Douglas Helms, Douglas J. Lawrence, Patricia J. Lawrence, Peter F. Smith
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 289–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.2.289
Published: 01 April 2002
... Resources Conservation Service, National Archives, College Park, Md. (hereafter NARG 114). 8 Cecil Herbert Wadleigh , Wastes in Relation to Agriculture and Forestry , USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 1065 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968 ). 9 John A. Baker, Nathan...
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The Other Kind of Reclamation: Wetlands Drainage and National Water Policy, 1902–1912

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ANTHONY E. CARLSON
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 451–478.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.451
Published: 01 October 2010
...ANTHONY E. CARLSON Abstract This essay evaluates national wetlands policy during the first decade of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1890s the national government began to assume new responsibilities for natural resource management. By the end of World War I, Congress exercised some form...
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Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942

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Geoff Burrows
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.293
Published: 01 July 2017
... government, which established the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority to administer the water and electric resources of the island. Modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority, this public corporation helped Puerto Rico recover from the 1928 and 1932 hurricanes, improved long-term public health, and broke...
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The Survival of True Intercommoning in Lancashire in the Early-Modern Period

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William D. Shannon
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 169–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.4.169
Published: 01 October 2012
...William D. Shannon Abstract English medieval law assumed there was no land without a lord and that the normal landholding was the manor, held directly or indirectly of the Crown. However, it is clear that at an early period much wasteland was held at a higher level, as a resource to be shared...
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Southern Appalachia's Nineteenth-Century Bright Tobacco Boom: Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Culture of Tobacco

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Tom Lee
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 175–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.2.175
Published: 01 April 2014
... subsistence-oriented mountain folk, participated in agricultural trends and a network of market connections common to the South and the nation in the late nineteenth century. Tobacco culture bound them to the capital resources, marketing operations, and consumer goods of urban centers, even as the profits...
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Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water Conservation Movement in South Texas, 1940s to Present

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Armando C. Alonzo
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.201
Published: 01 April 2004
...Armando C. Alonzo Abstract Conservation of natural resources in South Texas is basically a modern development that parallels the evolution of the Soil Conservation Service and other federal agricultural agencies. Since the World War II era, Hispanic producers have played an important role...
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Cultivating Leisure: Tourism, Progressive Agriculture, and Technologies of Landscape at Pinehurst, North Carolina, 1895–1935

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Michael Winslow
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 61–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.061
Published: 01 January 2020
... labor, meaning-making, and natural resource use, goes into creating a place for recreation—and how agriculture extends beyond commodity crop production. The growth of golf turf on the poor soil of the Carolina sandhills region relied upon intensive resource use and an approximation of convertible...
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California Dreamin’: Rural Planning and Agricultural Development in Italy’s Grosseto Plain, 1948–1965

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Nicola Gabellieri
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 224–250.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.2.224
Published: 01 April 2020
... of access to and ownership of environmental resources, as well as the resources used, influenced the implementation of the reform. The article also considers the problem of the real outcomes of state planning. California Dreamin : Rural Planning and Agricultural Development in Italy s Grosseto Plain, 1948...
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Cowboy and Indian Alliances in the Northern Plains

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Zoltán Grossman
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 355–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.2.355
Published: 01 April 2003
...Zoltán Grossman Abstract Native Americans and white ranchers/farmers in eastern Montana and western South Dakota have often been in conflict over natural resources, such as water and grazing lands. But in the 1970s, the two groups began to develop a common interest in protecting the rural...
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The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin: High Modernism and the Ecological Crisis in the Eastern Half of the Habsburg Empire during the Nineteenth Century

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Viktor Pál
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 50–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10910303
Published: 01 February 2024
...Viktor Pál Abstract During the nineteenth century many European scientists shared the view that a nation could compete successfully if only it improved its landscape via new infrastructures, such as large reclamation and river regulation projects, and via the intensive use of natural resources...
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Figure 2. Visualizing Raubwirtschaft. Swiss agricultural journals reported on the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, using photographs to illustrate the consequences of soil erosion and the massive devastation of natural resources. © Archives of Rural History, Bern, Photo Collection.

Visualizing Raubwirtschaft . Swiss agricultural journals reported on the D...

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in Exploring Agriculture in the Age of Industrial Capitalism: Swiss Farmers and Agronomists in North America and the Transnational Entanglements of Agricultural Knowledge, 1870s to 1950s > Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Visualizing Raubwirtschaft . Swiss agricultural journals reported on the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, using photographs to illustrate the consequences of soil erosion and the massive devastation of natural resources. © Archives of Rural History, Bern, Photo Collection. More