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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 262–263.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Ryan Edgington Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America . By Dona Brown . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-25074-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Andrea Gaynor Abstract This paper examines self-sown crops as agents in the agricultural development of Australia’s southern mallee lands from the 1890s to the 1940s. Self-sown crops suggested ways to farm and provided the enticement of an occasional windfall. They assisted with expansion...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 212–232.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and animals as well as self–sown cereal crops. These practices were widespread and contributed significantly to the operation of the farm and the broader agricultural economy. The ubiquity and importance of these practices challenge conventional understandings of the modernity of Australian agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2000
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, " Solon ," The Parallel Lives , Chapt. 23, section 6 Land Allocation in the Ancient and Self-Sufficiency Athenian Village KEVIN MITCHELL Ifidget, write, twitch hairs out, do my sums, Gazefondly country-wards, longing for Peace, Loathing the asty, sick for my village-home, Which never cried, Come, buy...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 299–300.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Tom Okie Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century . By Helen Zoe Veit . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-00770-2 . © the Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jason M. Colby A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic . By Kevin Coleman . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . 316 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-0855-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 tle Culture in Western Amazonia...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 429–431.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Sigrid Schmalzer The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China . By Kate Merkel-Hess . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-8327-9 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 429...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and assistance, coupled with New Delhi's imperative to become self-sufficient in food-grain production. For Indian scientific elites, the possibility of “man-made evolution” through radiation-induced mutations was institutionally promising. Indian scientists became the standard-bearers of atomic agriculture...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 78–103.
Published: 01 January 2012
... to place those children into the homes of families. Farm families, which held a special place in the ideology of a self-sufficient United States, partnered with institutions and childplacing agencies to house tens of thousands of dependent children. Those involved in child welfare believed that they could...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 January 2007
... 1928, these rural myths and policies shaped plans for the resettlement of Mexican-American workers in self-sustaining villages within Los Angeles County. Under the direction of government officials, reformers, and employers, these plans articulated diverse ideologies and agendas: the New Dealer’s...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 190–219.
Published: 01 April 2006
... observation and experimentation. The main purpose of awakening farmers to this point of view was not to develop a more efficient, productive, and profitable agriculture, but to advance the larger cultural ideals of a "self-sustaining" agriculture and personal happiness. The account of Bailey’s vision provided...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Sara M. Gregg Abstract The small upcountry farms of Southern Appalachia were slowly fading away during the early twentieth century, but pockets of self-sufficient farms remained in places like the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These farmers, responsive to the constraints...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 July 2004
... and drought, a bountiful and secure agricultural hinterland was in the making. Within five years after the planting of New South Wales, convict settlers, mixed agriculture, and imperial designs had transformed "a rude, wild country into a pleasant garden." As a planned, self-sufficient, maritime settlement...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 143–163.
Published: 01 April 2008
... and disruption of habitat by water-powered mills. The development of private fish-ponds as an increasingly important component of American mixed husbandry practices in long-settled areas by the end of the eighteenth century illustrates early American farmers’ ability to successfully adapt to self-wrought changes...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and PL 480, the Food for Peace program. As more a plowshare than a sword, the American Cold War push for worldwide agricultural modernization led many countries to experience new levels of food self-efficiency and export capabilities. Along with production parity, however, has come escalating levels...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 559–583.
Published: 01 October 2015
.... There was an increase in pork whereas other animal products were unchanged or reduced, especially the total production of milk. At the same time, the Swedish population increased, which meant a decline in total output per capita. This was, however, no problem as Sweden was already self-sufficient in food...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 263–288.
Published: 01 April 2015
... parliamentary demands for the regulation of the milk industry, fueled by fears of milk-borne disease and the nutritional quality of cow's milk. Whereas historians have assumed that dairy farmers were resistant to central oversight, elite and self-labeled progressive companies such as the Aylesbury Dairy Company...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 200–224.
Published: 01 April 2015
... similar to their yeoman-class white neighbors. These free black farmers crossed the boundary between race and class by establishing economic self-sufficiency through farm production and then by cultivating important, yet often fragile and contingent, social advantages in their rural communities. ©...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 39–54.
Published: 01 January 2017
... self-sufficient. Not even the evictions of tenants associated with the New Deal’s crop-reduction payments posed a real threat to the Robinsons. Although few renters achieved the Robinsons’ success, historians have since discovered a class of landless farmers who survived the depression. © 2017...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 150–171.
Published: 01 April 2018
... stationary products. Its structured format encouraged them to forego conjecture for a disciplined accounting of their lives and agricultural work. At the same time, its blank space stimulated self-expression. Diarists readily adjusted its purpose and format, just as they modified other consumer products...
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