..., central states, and export economies. Amelia Hintzen Yale 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...

...Douglas Deur Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant . Kristin Johannsen . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant. By Kristin JohannsenL...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...: 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... cessions, freeing of their slaves, the right to relocate 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...

... 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 ...

... 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...

... 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...

..., and they were never paid wages they were owed. Suárez Findlay cleverly describes the archives as a type of sepulchre . . . a space for creative imagining (13). The historian as someone who exhumes buried secrets is an appropriate metaphor here, given the care the government exercised to bury this story. What...

... the production process in all its intensity is when James Bond penetrates the master-criminal s secret domain and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and packaging the drugs, constructing a rocket that will destroy New York) ( Welcome to the Desert of the Real! South Atlantic Quarterly 101...

... 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...

... histories to trace a secretive system of cultivation that he describes as cryptoculture: remote and shifting systems of farming designed to conceal crops and entire settlements from the roving eyes of passing soldiers, taxmen, or thieves (236). Peasant families produced small-scale yields of sugar, coffee...