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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 524–545.
Published: 01 July 2002
.... Lacy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986 ), 6 David E. Hamilton, "Building the Associative State: The Department of Agriculture and American State-Building," Agricultural History64 (Spring1990): 207 -18 4 Adolph
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and more control over the seeds farmers planted in the United States and abroad. Elmore shows that a new “invisible hand” of capitalism wielded so much power that it forced farmers, consumers, and governments to accept the bioengineered seeds and accompanying pesticides. The book's only failing would...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 244–245.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Bruce L. Bigelow Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900 . Stephen A. Vincent . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews Southem Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 420–421.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Brendan Matz Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds . Claire Hope Cummings . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Summer Born on a farm in Southwest Michigan in 1858, Bailey was much more than a horticultural scientist. He also...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 423–450.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Fiege, Irrigated Eden, 182. Origins of Pioneer Apple Orchards inthe American West: Random Seeding versus Artisan Horticulture DAVID H. DIAMOND Before the Revolution, colonial American consumers lish apple orchard. Unremarkable random seedling reconstituted apples and the E"ng "high fla vored English...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 266–270.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Peter A. Kopp The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture . By Courtney Fullilove . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . 288 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-226-45486-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Featured Review Rethinking...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Kate McDonald Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea . By David Fedman . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . 320 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2957-4745-3. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews 191 modernity. Scholars...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 561–562.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Mark B. Tauger Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint on World History . By Thomas R. Sinclair and Carol Janas Sinclair . Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, distributed in the United States by Stylus Publishing , 2010 . 208 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-84593...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Libby Robin Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand . By Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson . London : I. B. Taurus , 2011 . 296 pp., $80.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84511-797-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews Australia/New...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I . By Rose Hayden-Smith . Jefferson : McFarland & Company , 2014 . 264 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7864-7020-4. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 109–111.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kathleen Hilliard Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 . By Andrew J. Torget . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2424-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 562–563.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Sterling Evans Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture . Edited by Pamela A. Matson . Washington, DC : Island Press , 2012 . 332 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-59726-525-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 576–608.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Gabriela Soto Laveaga Abstract Known as “Mexican seeds,” the high-yielding wheat seeds that helped launch the Green Revolution performed a seemingly impossible act: they explicitly referenced Mexico yet at the same time shed themselves of any affiliation with Mexican expertise and domestic science...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2009
...JOSHUA D. MACFADYEN Abstract A new thirst for paint and color in cities made extensive flax production profitable in the northern Great Plains and Prairies and contributed to the cultivation of the most fragile grassland ecosystems. The production of flax seed for linseed oil became an early spin...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 April 2004
... to be convinced that new practices were beneficial. The cooperation of SCS, ASCS, and other agencies facilitated the work of introducing new practices, such as disking, root plowing, seeding of new grasses, and range management practices. Farmers also benefited from new practices. Construction of Falcón Dam...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 74–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... Each center’s agricultural program included produce for human consumption, feed crops, and livestock. Some centers also grew seed, ornamental, and war crops. Evacuees raised and consumed five types of livestock and sixty-one produce varieties, including many traditional foods. Seasonal surpluses were...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 29–53.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as much as their own nation's political and economic imperatives. Scientists and farmers relied on American experience, importing seed, knowledge, personnel, and technology. The global market reflected fluctuations in the US cotton industry and the demands of English cotton mills. Australia relied...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
... acreages in alfalfa, huge amounts of seed were imported from Russian Central Asia, especially from the region of Khiva. This article tells the story of how alfalfa connected these diverse regions, while also analyzing how a complex mix of technologies, expertise, colonialism, and ideas about...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
... technology, by highlighting the scientific work done on uses of organic, cheaper, locally available seeds and manures. The essay further reinterprets the place of traditional agricultural practices in the context of the modernization imperative of a newly independent state. © the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 5–38.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Alan L. Olmstead Abstract In the nineteenth century the British repeatedly attempted to improve the quality of Indian cotton. This was a major enterprise involving the importation of thousands of pounds of exotic seeds, the establishment of experimental farms and outreach programs, and the hiring...
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