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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 759–774.
Published: 01 October 2000
... Rural Does Not Equal Agricultural," Agricultural History74 (Spring2000): 489 -501 3 Robert C. Swierenga , " Agriculture and Rural Life: The New Rural History ," in Ordinary People and Every day Life: Perspectives on the New Social History , ed. James B. Gardner and George Rollie Adams...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
Published: 01 July 2017
... inexpensive electric power while also providing adequate flood relief, year-round irrigation for the dry southern coast, and abundant reserves of clean drinking water. As with other PRRA projects, all property, constructions, and lands of the rural electrification program were transferred to the local...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 291–293.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Barrie Blatchford [email protected] Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic . By Ariel Ron . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020 . 324 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 9781421439327. Copyright © 2022...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 474–475.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Kathryn Beasley [email protected] Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965 . By Cherisse Jones-Branch . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press , 2021 . 240 pp., $39.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9781610757447 . Copyright ©...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 484–486.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jenny Barker-Devine [email protected] Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream . By Jennifer Sherman . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . 288 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780520305144 . Copyright © 2022...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 620–622.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Mary Lorena Kenny [email protected] For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil . By Merle L. Bowen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 249 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781108832359 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 647–650.
Published: 01 November 2022
... ways of living to an examination of the depiction of rural “defectiveness” through movies like Deliverance and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre . Building on ideas of rural disability, poverty, and perversion connected to Ed Gein, Cartwright writes that these films “cemented the association between...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Jie Zhao [email protected] A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China . By Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2021 . 240 pp., $95.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780691213224. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 342–378.
Published: 01 August 2022
...David D. Vail Abstract This article examines the conflicts over knowledge, expertise, spiritual promises, and agroecological realities that collided in the construction of an early-1900s rural water conservation district in Cache Valley, Utah. Out of these tensions emerged a field-based view...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 708–710.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Leah S. Glaser [email protected] Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West . By Ryanne Pilgeram . Pullman : University of Washington Press , 2021 . 210 pp., $30.00, paperback, ISBN 9780295748696 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Whitney A. Snow [email protected] Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification . By Richard F. Hirsh . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2022 . 400 pp., $60.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781421443621 . Copyright © 2024...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 223–247.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Guangji Hu Abstract Drawing on county-level foreign trade archival documents, this article explores export production in the rural Pearl River delta during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the relationship between local foreign trade agencies and grassroots collectives in three counties. The study...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 187–222.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Anna Lehr Mueser Abstract This article explores collective memories about lost farms in New York City's watershed. It argues that farms taken by eminent domain for two water supply reservoirs came to symbolize lost rural and agricultural lifeways in the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. New York City's rural water supply system, located west of the Hudson River in the Catskill Mountains. Note the ring lines indicating distance from New York City. Hatched borders set out from the reservoirs mark the boundaries of their respective watersheds. The Cannonsville More
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 5. Article on school electrification from Rural Electrification News , 1937. “Electrified Schools an REA By Product,” Rural Electrification News , April 1937, HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073700604. More
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2013
...R. Todd Welker Abstract The character of local exchange has long assumed an important place in the historiographical debate on the capitalist transformation of the American countryside. Whereas that character has been carefully examined in nearly every rural corner of the United States...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 451–453.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Heidi Dodson J. V. Conran and Rural Political Power: Boss Mythology in the Missouri Bootheel . By Will Sarvis . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2012 . 194 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391-6985-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews African...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Kenneth Hafertepe Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State . By Cynthia G. Falk . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2012 . 296 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8014-7780-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 Agricultural History Summer shaped...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 611–612.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Ole Sparenberg War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s . Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, and Leen Van Molle . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 268 pp., $125.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-52216-8 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 362–370.
Published: 01 April 2021
... whether national farm programs should benefit larger, landowning, and more commercial farm operators or should aim to sustain large numbers of smaller farms and address the plight of the rural poor. These accounts, however, slight the increasingly influential arguments put forth by liberal economists...