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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 128–163.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Carlos S. Dimas Abstract In 1872 the Argentine state founded the Argentine Meteorological Service (AMS) as an appendage of the National Observatory. Under the guidance of US astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould and his successor Walter Davis, the AMS created a national network of amateur weather...
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View articletitled, In <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> and Observation of the State: The Argentine Meteorological <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> and the Culture of Weather Observation in Argentina, 1872–1915
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 January 2017
...James Bergman Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 . Edited by Alan I Marcus . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2015 . 360 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1868-0 . Service as Mandate: How American Land-Grant...
View articletitled, Science as <span class="search-highlight">Service</span>: Establishing and Reformulating Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> as Mandate: How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 193–219.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Carmen V. Harris Abstract This article is an institutional history of the development of race policy within the federal Cooperative Extension Service. It demonstrates that the popular belief in African-American inferiority and pragmatic political compromises aimed at creating a bureaucracy serving...
View articletitled, "The Extension <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> Is Not an Integration Agency": The Idea of Race in the Cooperative Extension <span class="search-highlight">Service</span>
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Robert Schneiders Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief . Harold K. Steen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 135 the Americas, Gardens ofNew Spain: How Mediterranean Changed America would make an excellent supplemental Latin American...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 140–141.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Donald G. Wetherell Country Post: Rural Postal Service in Canada, 1880-1945 . Chantal Amyot and John Willis . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 140 / Agricultural History buried in the floor of a dairy cooler, which the archaeologists interpreted as the family...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Mark Harvey A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service . Melody Webb . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 247 They chose Guy Bradley, who had a family to support and a long standing desire to enter law enforcement. Bradley fast...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 260–262.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Keith Volanto © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas . Debra Reid . AgriculturHalistory Spring David La Vere'sLifeamongtheTexasIndians.BakerandHenshawfocused theirresearchin...
View articletitled, Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension <span class="search-highlight">Service</span>, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 506–530.
Published: 01 October 2010
...ANGELA FIRKUS Abstract Congress created the Agricultural Extension Service (AES) in 1914 to disseminate agricultural research to individual farmers but the service operated differently in each state. In California, AES aided agribusiness in its efforts to create a "harmonious hierarchy...
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Published: 01 November 2023
figure 2. Forestry Service female fire-spotter engaging with students during a field trip to Greenfield Village, 2018. Photograph by Debra A. Reid.
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Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2. Projected farm bill spending. Congressional Research Service, “Farm Bill Primer: What Is the Farm Bill?,” updated February 22, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12047 .
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Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 1. The Spring Bank site on September 19, 1937. Aero Service Corp., “FG-35-12,” US Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Washington, DC, 1937. RG 114, Can #DN0231. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 289–307.
Published: 01 April 2002
...," Journal of Soil and Water Conservation40 ( March -April 1985 ): 184 -88. 4 Robert L.
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Jr., comp., A Chronological History of the Soil Conservation Service and Related Events (Washington, D.C: Soil Conservation Service, 1955 ), 7 . 5 Linda J.
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 188–207.
Published: 01 April 2002
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, Eleventh Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, 1911– 1912 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913 ), 84 Twelfth Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, 1912–1913 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914 ), 98 Fifteenth Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, 1915...
View articletitled, Water and Economic Opportunity: Homesteaders, Speculators, and the U.S. Reclamation <span class="search-highlight">Service</span>, 1904–1924
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 356–378.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Douglas Sheflin Abstract This article highlights Colorado Cooperative Extension Service (CCES) employee A. J. Hamman to demonstrate how Extension employees began acting as intermediaries between farmers and the federal government in the face of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. The dual crises...
View articletitled, The New Deal Personified: A. J. Hamman and the Cooperative Extension <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> in Colorado
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Doug Genens Abstract From 1966 to the late 1970s, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) helped farmworkers unionize, fight for safer workplaces, and create a more just farm economy. Studying CRLA as part of the War on Poverty’s Legal Services Program allows scholars to rethink the parameters...
View articletitled, Fighting Poverty in the Fields: Legal <span class="search-highlight">Services</span> and the War on Poverty in Rural California
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in the globalization of food. anne effland Economic Research Service USDA The views expressed in this review are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the views of the economic research Service or the uSda. 165 ...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 402–404.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... By James R. Skillen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 360 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2127-9. 402 2016 Book Reviews Environmental historian James Skillen s new book attempts to shed light on how the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and supporting evidence to move the work forward. He might have done better to produce a couple of strong articles that presented his key insights, rather than trying to draw them out into a longer work. Anne B. Effland Economic Research Service, USDA The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 619–620.
Published: 01 October 2014
... in the depression-era development of constitutional law. Anne Effland Economic Research Service, USDA 620 ...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 540–542.
Published: 01 July 2021
... a promising methodological structure within which to contribute to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history. Cane West National Park Service Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500 1840. By Ben Marsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 500 pp., $39.99, hardback, ISBN 9781108418287...
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