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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 550–551.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Douglas Deur AgriculturHalistory Fall Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant. By Kristin JohannsenL. exington:UniversityPress ofKentucky,2006. 224 pp., $24.95,hardback,ISBN 0-8131-2384-4. Among themany plants that have been harvested commercially inNorth America, ginseng...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Anatole Tchikine Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Londa Schiebinger . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 256 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0291-5. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 413–414.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Lee Zook Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms . Randy James . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews NOTE 1. Elwyn B. Robinson, "The Themes ofNorthDakota History," inThe Centennial Anthologyof "NorthDakota History,Journalof...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 October 2009
...JOAN M. JENSEN Abstract This article addresses the reticence of some farm women to share their experiences with historians and how that desire to keep secrets collides with the desire by scholars to tell the stories of these women. It argues that scholars must continue to struggle with the issue...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 104–131.
Published: 01 January 2021
... suasion. They formed the FIC to counter the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which they labeled as communist. After the FIC disbanded in 1936, some of its leaders tried to carry on its goals by forming a secret central committee for the nation’s conservative groups. Stanley Morse initiated the effort...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 July 2004
...: Proceedings, 2, PRO Beauchamp Select Committee, "Report of the Committee of the House of Commons relative to the Transportation of Felons, June 21,1785," HO 42-6:449–67, at Report 11-13, PRO 3 Sydney to Lord Commrs of the Admiralty, Aug. 31,1786, HO 29-2: 37r–39v, at f. 38r, PRO "Secret," Draft...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 650–652.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and economic developments in the nation's history. The presentation is a mix of narrative and essay that paints a very particular vision of US agricultural development; Wetherington makes no secret of his indictment of the current structure of US agriculture. Farming systems and farm policy have become...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 506–508.
Published: 01 August 2023
... History Society 2023 Tracy Brynne Voyles has written an environmental and social history of Southern California's Salton Sea and its adjacent agricultural empire that contributes significantly to studies of “settler colonialism.” It is no secret that, throughout the American West, white settlers...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to decode the secret formula. instead, he tells a story of coke as a model of post-Fordist capitalism, where firms stayed light and nimble and outsourced as much of their costs and operations as possible. coke, according to elmore, was, then, the precursor by almost six decades of current global titans nike...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 423–424.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and makes the peace sign we want freedom and we want food. But first we want food, Holden argues. In this meticulously researched, delightfully engaging history of food in Morocco, Holden makes a compelling case that food provision has been the secret to the stability and longevity of the Alawid dynasty...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 309–311.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Society 2024 Tucked away in the backyards of California's Santa Clara Valley lies a revolutionary secret hidden in plain sight: people of all backgrounds are growing ancestral food in home gardens. In doing so, they are reconnecting with the land and their communities through convivial labor...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 411–412.
Published: 01 July 2016
... officials wanted to occupy the land, conduct their tests in secret, and have the local population assent to their demands in the name of patriotism and national security. The National Park Service saw the area in a historical context and wanted to create a monument at the site of the first nuclear explosion...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 May 2025
.... While serving as both a secret and official representative of the United States in South America and Mexico, he worked with a wide range of actors with varying political beliefs to establish trade deals and bolster US overseas economic investments—including his own. After returning from abroad, Poinsett...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 January 2020
... other Indians and freed people on their lands, and, perhaps most ominously, relinquishment of rights-of-way to railroad companies. Indeed, railroad support and some funding of the Boomer movement was an open secret along Kansas s southern border (45). While Hightower frames the Oklahoma Question...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 422–423.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., delightfully engaging history of food in Morocco, Holden makes a compelling case that food provision has been the secret to the stability and longevity of the Alawid dynasty in Morocco (1661 to the present). In pre-colonial times, the Alawid sultans historically distributed wheat to the hungry and taxed meat...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 21–23.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and you can t then find a topic that you love and that has lots of primary source material available. Your dissertation will be your life for at least four years, so you damn well better enjoy it! Secret tip: If you can drive to most of your archives, as I was able to, so much the better! 23 ...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 461–463.
Published: 01 July 2017
... structure giving direction to local Klan groups. The violence in each community was organic, with ruffians and thugs continuing patterns of violence and merely adopting the KKK identity. To be effective the Klansmen needed to remain secret while at the same time newspapers provided coverage to a national...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 354–356.
Published: 01 July 2001
... to accumulate significant economic resources, household production allowed for the protection of freedwomen from rape and their withdrawal from agricultural labor in the fields, it maximized the productive capacity of freedmen, and it could be conducted at any time. It could also take place in secret...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 453–461.
Published: 01 August 2024
...” ; Hadwiger, “The Freeman Administration and the Poor” ; “Statement of Mrs. L. C. Dorsey” in Senate, Hearings before the Select Committee , 927 . 3. Smith, Food Power Politics ; “Conversation with James Eastland,” March 18, 1964, Secret White House tapes, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency, citation...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 195–197.
Published: 01 January 2019
... University Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Londa Schiebinger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 256 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0291-5. Londa Schiebinger s important new book expands her previous work on the body...