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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 594–608.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... PRK: How were those reports received? PL: [ Laughs ] I think generally by the time the census came out and by the time I'd done analysis it confirmed the suspicions of some folks. Dave and PrairieFire probably would have said, This is what we've been talking about at the local level. Now they had...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 271–278.
Published: 01 July 2001
... on the formerly barren farm and commented, "I was way off when I said the Plains had gone to desert to stay. I wasn't even in the buggy. Somehow the land recovered. Kansas is green again." Part of the re-greening of Kansas was due to improved weather condi? tions, and also to a shift towards costly center-pivot...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... Recently, historians have fastened onto modernization as a framework for understanding US relations with the developing world after the Second World War. Technocratic values, particularly as advocated by modernization theory, are said to have shaped the form and the content of US policymaking. Much...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 281–326.
Published: 01 July 2010
... wouldn't come to town except to go toGeorge Foehner_You had towatch what you were saying." Olef a Koerth Matthies recalled that her sister played the organ and familymembers sang. Olefa Matthies said, "My mother would come in. She said, 'Don't sing German songs! Whatever you do, don't sing?otherwise...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 137–141.
Published: 01 April 2002
... growth of the region because of water limitations. In this widely denounced piece, he said the desert was everywhere in the region so much so that it even reached out "to argue with the sea." Despite Webb's almost mythical authoritative standing, recent scholarship increasingly suggests that both East...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Things.” Cover of Ag Chem and Commercial Fertilizer 27 (May 1972). First, readers of this trade journal would know that N₂, plentiful in the earth's atmosphere, was nonreactive and inert. N₂ could not properly be said to be healthy or unhealthy for all living things; it took the fixation of N...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 426–443.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of life and the rural community as offering children and youth a kind of freedom that cities did not. speaking in retrospect of what they had thought as they contemplated adulthood and marriage, many women said their main concern was that relationships in the families they formed should be less...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 January 2010
... understandanythinghe said, and when I finallytold himso in a thoroughlyprofanefashion,I succeeded onlyin provokinga wide grinalong withtheassurance,"Jimmyy,ou'rea mensch" Later,afterseeingJackin the middleof his Fulbrightyearat Genoa, I was thoroughlyconvinced thattheonlywaytheItalianswould ever be shed of himwas...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 January 2015
... that you couldn t even play Virginia Reel unless you sang it. That was Fitch Marean s idea. I flounced out of church. I said, come on, let s this was when I was in high school let s do Virginia Reel. It s lots more fun than Snap and Ketch Em. Fitch Marean appeared in the doorway of the prayer room...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 494–512.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the short-handled hoe. Like so many, he said, I wake up in the night with the pain that comes from stooping in the field all day. The short hoe is the nail [growers] use to hang us from the cross. 1 As Chavez indicated, the short-handled hoe was an agent of tedious stoop labor. With only an eight...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 275–276.
Published: 01 May 2022
... thing, there is a tension between accessibility and comprehensiveness. The book covers pretty much everything about the cow, but without footnotes. There is a bibliography, though admittedly it is stronger on the natural history of cattle than its cultural history. That said, a more comprehensive...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 436–460.
Published: 01 October 2006
... good history,thatresearchin primary materialswasessentiala, ndthatgoodhistorianps ublishedandwroteclearly and felicitously.Canadianscholarshad neglectedagriculturahl istory,he said,andsuggestedthata thesisin thatareacouldbe interestingandprofessionallyuseful.Nine monthsof research,mainlyin periodicalsg...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 276–277.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Cranbury particularly appealing as a case study in community preservation. It was former Speaker of the House Thomas P. Tip O Neill who famously said that, all politics is local ; books like Cranbury remind us that the same might be said of history. Mark Edward Lender Kean University Poultry Science...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 277–278.
Published: 01 April 2013
...-written throughout, and derived from solid research, the use of oral histories in the later chapters makes Cranbury particularly appealing as a case study in community preservation. It was former Speaker of the House Thomas P. Tip O Neill who famously said that, all politics is local ; books like...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 190–219.
Published: 01 April 2006
... the landgrant colleges been as successful on their agricultural sides as their friends had hoped to see them become?" His answer was an immediate "No!" The reason for this was not so much a lack of funding, Bailey said, but rather a failure to adapt to farmers' needs.11 Bailey felt that the central problem...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 452–476.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Sea Island plantations that freedpeople and others had gained from the federal government through direct tax deeds.23 Simkins said of her father s mother, Mary Dobbins, After freedom, his mother worked as a nursemaid in a white home there in Columbia. And she became pregnant by the father...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
... said. Shaw gave so much technical detail to the congressmen about the research that they were perplexed what to ask about. One finally broached the key question: “Do you think this will develop to a point where any ordinary farmer can use it?” Shaw, speaking for the USDA, answered in the negative...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 143–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... ); Donald Worster , Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 ); Randy McFerrin and Douglas Wills , “Who Said the Ranges were Over Stocked?” http://www.ebookbrowse.com/who-said-theranges-were-over-stocked-pdf-d174239339 (accessed May 22, 2012...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 290–299.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of academics, and his quiet good humor. His loss leaves a hole in the organization, and I will miss him. DON PISANI Much can be said about Fred Williams exemplary service to the Agricultural History Society, but let me begin with a more mundane part of 294 2014 C. Fred Williams A Remembrance, 1943 2013 Figure...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 775–798.
Published: 01 October 2000
...; Walters and Dunbar to Cross, 5 April 1921, ff 905, box 113
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; Farm and Ranch Review , 5 December1921 7 Executive Meeting, 30 June 1922, ff 8, box 1
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, when he said that "Nothing is so important to western Canada, not even...
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