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Convict Settlers, Seamen’s Greens, and Imperial Designs at Port Jackson: A Maritime Perspective of British Settler Agriculture

Angus R. McGillivery
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 261–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.3.261
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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Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies

Tom Brooking
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 506–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.4.506
Published: 01 October 2005
...Tom Brooking Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies . David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 506 / Agricultural History but we also hear that "the hunter-gatherer persisted, not as a relict society...
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White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West

Thomas D. Isern
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 594–595.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.4.594
Published: 01 October 2017
...Thomas D. Isern White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West . By Ryan Eyford . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2017 . 272 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-3159-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 594...
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The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

David Stiller
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 506–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10474578
Published: 01 August 2023
...David Stiller [email protected] The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism . By Traci Brynne Voyles . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 382 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781496216731 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural...
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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

Diana L. Ahmad
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 119–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.1.119
Published: 01 January 2004
...Diana L. Ahmad The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land . Conevery Bolton Valenčius . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews The Health of the Country: How American selves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Books...
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Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand

Gordon M. Winder
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 316–317.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.316
Published: 01 April 2015
...Gordon M. Winder Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand . By Peter Holland . Auckland : Auckland University Press , 2013 . 256 pp., $44.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86940-739-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...
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Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico

Christopher A. Huff
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 458–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.458
Published: 01 July 2017
...Christopher A. Huff Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico . Edited by Benjamin Klein . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . 192 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-8510-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 458...
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English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 285–286.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.285
Published: 01 April 2007
...A. J. R. Russell-Wood English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . Oliver Marshall . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews connect to the region, nation, and world in a time of remarkable political and economic...
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Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853–1889

Donald L. Parman
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 826–827.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.826
Published: 01 October 2000
... Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Ter? ritory, 1853-1889. By Brad Asher. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 288 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3107-1. This fascinating study by independent scholar Brad Asher deals with Indians and their relationships with the white...
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Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers

Peter Noll
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 122–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.1.122
Published: 01 January 2013
...Peter Noll Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers . By Marcia C. Carmichael . Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society Press , 2011 . 256 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87020-466-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...
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Agricultural Settlement in Victoria’s Last Frontier: The Mallee, 1890–1951

Charles Fahey
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 187–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.187
Published: 01 April 2017
...Charles Fahey Abstract In the 1890s agricultural settlers moved into the Victorian Mallee, an area characterized by low rainfall and a deep-rooted eucalyptus mallee scrub. By rolling, cutting, and burning this scrub, large areas could be rapidly brought under cereal crops. The key to success...
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This Land Ain’t My Land: The Eviction of Sharecroppers by the Farm Security Administration

JANE ADAMS, D. GORTON
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 323–351.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.323
Published: 01 July 2009
...JANE ADAMS; D. GORTON Abstract The New Deal resettlement communities appear in the literature as efforts to ameliorate the wretched condition of southern sharecroppers and tenants.However, those evicted to make way for the new settlers are virtually invisible in the historic record...
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Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman’s Empire in Texas and Alberta, 1875–1900

Andrew R. Graybill
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 253–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.253
Published: 01 July 2005
... and especially water, a resource in short supply on the semi-arid prairies of Texas and Alberta. Larger ranchers and cattle syndicates resented the challenge posed by the settlers and feared the competition for water and grass. Supported by officials in Austin and Ottawa--who favored rapid industrial development...
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Information Exchange and the Making of the Colonial Farm: Agricultural Periodicals in Late Nineteenth–Century New Zealand

Vaughan Wood, Eric Pawson
Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 337–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.337
Published: 01 July 2008
...Vaughan Wood; Eric Pawson Abstract In the mid to late nineteenth century, the agricultural periodical emerged as a major new medium for circulating information. In colonial settings it proved particularly important, as settlers often lived remotely from the markets for their produce, and they did...
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Generating New Production Knowledge: Competitive Agricultural Events in the British Australian Colony of Victoria, c.1840–1890

Dmytro Ostapenko
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 491–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.4.491
Published: 01 October 2018
...Dmytro Ostapenko Abstract Profound environmental differences between Europe and Australia compelled early European settlers to acquire and develop new farming technologies to make cropping a viable activity in the new country. This article demonstrates how competitive agricultural events...
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Beyond the Monolith of Modernity: New Trends in Immigrant and Ethnic Rural History

Royden Loewen
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 204–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.204
Published: 01 April 2007
... in particular. Three, focusing on settler society and rural culture in regional, national, and transnational variations, describe modernity in particular; they see the very idea of change, once seen as inevitable and inexorable, as constructed, invented, and contrived. Three others are local studies of specific...
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In Service and Observation of the State: The Argentine Meteorological Service and the Culture of Weather Observation in Argentina, 1872–1915

Carlos S. Dimas
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 128–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9619818
Published: 01 May 2022
... as a scientific endeavor. In the Patagonian territory of Chubut, settlers and soldiers who completed weather observations argued that their findings demonstrated Patagonia to be a region of limitless agricultural possibilities, even if the truth was far from that. [email protected] Copyright © 2022...
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The Marginalization of the Environment in Agricultural Policy

Silvia Secchi
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 462–469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11225630
Published: 01 August 2024
...Silvia Secchi Abstract From its inception, US settler agriculture has used extractive and unsustainable practices. Farm bill agricultural conservation policy since the 1930s has been based on largely ineffective approaches unable to address the environmental problems caused by agriculture...
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Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

Steve Marti
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 451–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.451
Published: 01 July 2018
... Canada. The book draws inspiration from scholars of settler colonial studies, particularly the work of Patrick Wolf and Lorenzo Veracini, to illuminate how the extension of European legal systems in Australia and Canada created the lasting structures of the settler colonial state. With this approach...
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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Gabrielle Guillerm
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 500–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10474548
Published: 01 August 2023
...' original sin of Indigenous land theft, not just the sin of enslavement. In fact, Witgen masterfully illustrates the intricacy of settler colonialism and anti-Black racism in the early nineteenth century by analyzing how the states carved from the Northwest Territory were premised not only on Natives...
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