...William A. Morgan Abstract Focusing on the province of Pinar del Río, the epicenter of Cuban tobacco cultivation, this article intends to correct a historiography that has either marginalized or inaccurately stereotyped the size and scale of Cuba’s tobacco economy, primarily by failing to recognize...

...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...

..., agriculture, and livestock grazing, were established in the middle Rio Puerco valley, northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Within a decade, overgrazing in the larger Rio Puerco watershed initiated a process of erosion and entrenchment of the Rio Puerco that eventually led to the abandonment of three...

...Trinidad Gonzales tgonzales@southtexascollege.edu War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 . By Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2020 . 508 pp., $30.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780806164984. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural...

...Michael Welsh Michael.welsh@unco.edu Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West: First in Line for the Rio Grande . By David Stiller . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2021 . 188 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 9781948908801 . Copyright © 2022...

..., and the press, which failed to arouse public sentiment or safeguard public health. Mart 282 Agricultural History helps us understand the consequences of this bad romance. Amy Hay University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists...

... and Santa Fe. This trade continued until the annexation of Mexican territory north of the Rio Grande following the Mexican War in 1848. Wine continued to be produced on both sides of the river until the first decades of the twentieth century when the combination of population growth and salination...

... in adopting new conservation practices to conserve and enhance the value of their lands. Initially, the region was a natural grassland devoted to ranching, but farm development in the early twentieth century led to a sharp increase in irrigated farmland along the Rio Grande. Conservation practices during...

...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...

... Internacional de Historia Ambiental Americana in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 25-30, 2004. Nelson Werneck Sodré, Oeste: Ensaio Sobre a Grande Propriedade Pastoril (Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editor, 1941). Sinopse Estatística do Estado, N. 1, Ano II—1936 (Cuiabá: Tip. A. Calhão, 1937), 12 Ministerio das...

... and Modernization in Brazil" (PhD diss., University of Miami-Coral Gables, 2001), 113-22. 2 Warren Dean, Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820-1920 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976), 161-62; Nos. 2173-2526, Binder O-29, Registro de Óbitos, Cartório do Primeiro Ofício -Barra do Piraí, Barra...

... pp., $55.00, ISBN 08047-3100-4. Steven Bell, a geographer at McGill University, gives us a rewarding, readable history of much continuity and some change in southern Brazilian ranching. Appropriate to his discipline, Bell opens with a thorough descrip? tion of the geographical features of Rio Grande...

...-south border between Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. 1907, however, provides a convenient and consistent line across the state as areas to the west developed similarly to the Texas High Plains. Together, from the Rio Grande Valley to south-central Kansas, these lines denote the approximate boundary...

... and former territories of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego. 18. Gould's interest in the southern hemisphere began as a member of James M. Gilliss's US Naval astronomical expedition of the southern hemisphere from 1849 to 1852. Comstock, “Benjamin Apthorp Gould” ; Hodge...

... ; Gail Olson , “They Held a Mutilation but No One Came,” Rio Grande (N. Mex.) Sun , July 26 , 1979 ; Gail Olson , “Two Convinced of Mutilation,” Rio Grande Sun , Aug. 9 , 1979 . 23. James R. Stewart , “Collective Delusion: A Comparison of Believers and Skeptics...

... : Columbia University Press , 1938 ); Bailey W. Diffie and Justine Whitfield Diffie , Porto Rico: A Broken Pledge ( New York : Vanguard Press , 1931 ); Jorge J. Serrallés , Farm Prices and Price Relationships of Sugar and Sugar Cane in Puerto Rico From 1910 to 1945 ( Río Piedras...

... Society ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 ); Warren Dean , Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820–1920 ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1976 ); Luna and Klein , Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850 ( Stanford : Stanford University Press...

... of the region. The task proved personally disastrous for him but resulted in the establishment of dozens of Franciscan missions, the founding of Santa Fe sometime around 1610, and the spread of Spanish ranching-farming operations along the Rio Grande and its more accessible and dependable tributaries...

...Bradley G. Bond Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama . Brooks Blevins . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 93 (88-91). "By World War I, ranchers in Rio Grande do Sul considered them? selves far behind Argentina and Uruguay...