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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Adriana Premat Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba . By Julia Wright . Sterling, Va. : Stylus Publishing , 2008 . 280 pp., $117.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84407-572-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...
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Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 416–417.
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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Tools for Overcoming Crisis: Agriculture, Scarcity, and Ideas of Rural Mechanization in Late Qing China
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the value of well-drilling machines to solve the problem of water scarcity. The growth of Chinese-language periodicals and interactions between Chinese and foreigners in China and other countries facilitated the acquisition of knowledge about foreign farming technologies and stimulated debate over...
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Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Craig E. Colten Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region . By Christopher J. Manganiello . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2005-3. © 2016 Agricultural...
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Farming with Petroleum: The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry's Malthusian Bargain
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
... campaign against the nitrogen fertilizer industry to its rightful place in postwar US environmental history. It additionally details how that industry had preemptively used a Malthusian logic of resource scarcity to make a nearly unassailable case for itself as a savior of humankind from the threat...
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Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar Es Salaam
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 278 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8229-4611-3. Book Reviews 407 In Gone to Ground, Emily Brownell gives readers an intriguing history of urbanization and scarcity in postcolonial Dar es Salaam (locally known as Dar) during a critical moment in its growth...
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Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 256–257.
Published: 01 April 2017
... several Book Reviews 257 different angles, including: Le Corbusier s developing thinking about small farms and their purpose in urban development; the planning of Amsterdam s food system in the face of food scarcity in the city; gardening programs in American cities during times of depression and world...
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The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 723–725.
Published: 01 November 2024
... elite ate in exclusive, reservation-only restaurants where there was plenty of elaborately prepared food and drink. If there were moments of excess among the elites, food scarcity cast a long shadow over the tables of most Russians. Russia's severe winters, frequent droughts, and floods made food...
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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 January 2019
... scarcity. In telling this story, historians have, to date, focused on the degradation of the biophysical world and the exploitation of natural resources whether encouraged by the state or limited by preservation efforts. What has not been thoroughly explored, however, is the variation in response among...
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Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., examining the culture of waiting. Scarcity in everything from buses to food during the mid-1970s forced residents to find alternatives for the lack of infrastructure, as high fuel costs and lack of foreign exchange stymied public transportation systems and the ujamaa villages failed to produce sufficient...
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Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 629–630.
Published: 01 October 2015
... motivated countryside conservationists to engage in bureaucratic politics. Cultural meanings of water, abundance, and scarcity constantly changed over time. Drainage and flooding dominated conversations until the second half of the twentieth century. Colten s discussion of contemporary water conflicts...
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Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of Pax Priísta, 1940–1962
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 106–107.
Published: 01 January 2011
... response to the Jaramillistas as they radicalized and embraced the Cuban Revolution. As is true of Zapatismo, the regime sought to both extinguish the movement and appropriate and tame its legacy. Paul Haber University of Montana Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons...
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Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 630–632.
Published: 01 October 2015
... and the federal response sacrificed a deeper investigation of what motivated countryside conservationists to engage in bureaucratic politics. Cultural meanings of water, abundance, and scarcity constantly changed over time. Drainage and flooding dominated conversations until the second half of the twentieth...
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Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 417–419.
Published: 01 July 2013
... century, arguing that Europe had important economic advantages by the sixteenth century, if not earlier. Scarcity and Frontiers is a vast book, so it is understandable that one comes across a few errors for example, the reference to the SinoRussian war when the author meant the Russo-Japanese war...
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Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 January 2017
... provides a revealing window into the thinking that affects global food policy. Fresco engages ideas of paradise such as the Garden of Eden, which she uses to frame her argument about modern and future food abundance in contrast to historical scarcity. She extends this metaphor to modern fast food...
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Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 July 2020
... for the future. Hence, they bent their efforts toward securing an impoundment on the Arkansas River, which they managed to achieve at the end of the decade when the Army Corps of Engineers began building the John Martin dam. Sheflin emphasizes that the fragility of soils and scarcity of water were not the only...
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To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 228–257.
Published: 01 April 2007
... ," in Water Quality Management Under Conditions of Scarcity: Israel as a Case Study , ed. Hillel Shuval (New York: Academic Press, 1980 ), 293 ; Howard M.
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, Water in Strife and Action (Givataim: Masada...
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Land Allocation and Self-Sufficiency in the Ancient Athenian Village
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of the twelve gods. The fact that the polis structure prescribed by Plato is an ideal abstraction is made evident by the fact that he fails to resolve fully the question of scarcity implicit in distribution. With regard to the number of citizens, he stated, "A suitable total for the number of citizens cannot...
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Rethinking the Seeds of American Agricultural Exceptionalism
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 266–270.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the globe while at the same time creating monocultures that threaten biodiversity. Fullilove argues that recovering knowledge systems and landscapes lost during agricultural modernization will prove imperative in our own era as many across the globe face food scarcity in the face of climate change. While...
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Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870–1922
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
... advertisements plummeted along with poor harvests. Regional droughts in the Northern Plains are visible in the early 1920s. Reports of surplus laborers milling about in town or looking for work ballooned in the worst years, and gave way to panic over labor scarcity in good years. Even a cursory reading, in other...
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