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in In Service and Observation of the State: The Argentine Meteorological Service and the Culture of Weather Observation in Argentina, 1872–1915
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Map showing the differences of time within Argentina and indicating Córdoba as the center of the nation. Gabriel Carrasco, La unidad horaria en la República Argentina. Estudio, mensajes y documentos oficiales que presenta á Honorables Cámaras Legislativas (Buenos Aires: J. Peuser
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in With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. Maps showing major agricultural research institutes in Taiwan, with the proposed center highlighted in the box. “Asian Vegetable Development Center,” May 1967, 3801A, 12, Academia Historica, Taipei.
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in Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 3. “United Fruit Company Organization” chart showing the new research department under the management of Hartley Rowe, an industrial engineer by training. “Vice-Presidents of the United Fruit Company,” 132.
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in Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 7. Satellite image showing large Africa oil palm plantations to the west (Ulua Valley) and the Lancetilla garden and biological reserve to the east, just south of the city of Tela. Google Earth Pro (accessed November 5, 2022).
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in False Gospels of Efficiency: Contested Knowledge, Determined Experts, and Unfaithful Lands in Rural Utah
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2022
figure 5. Map showing District No. 1's ground water, flooding risks, and alkali distribution. Reprinted from bulletin 193, Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1 (Logan: Utah State Agricultural College, 1925).
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 54–77.
Published: 01 January 2018
...-century system with its emphasis on pedigree standards and the show system. The situation provides a venue for studying a larger question: How does developing science interface with industry structure and culture when it comes to animal breeding? The subservience of genetics and biotechnology...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 36–68.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and 1850s, it shows that enslavers largely used plantation books to record and track many aspects of cotton slavery rather than using them for advanced accounting. Enslavers held tens of thousands of enslaved people on plantations managed with the use of the Affleck books, making the books’ attempts...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 351–379.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Yovanna Pineda Abstract This article examines the relationship between the Argentine government’s agricultural policy and farm machinery use and design between 1861 and 1930, showing how this policy strongly influenced the continuous importation of farm machinery from North Atlantic countries...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 62–77.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Ann-Catrin Östman Abstract This article studies agricultural history from the perspective of masculinity. It aims to show how early twentieth-century Finnish historical studies articulated manly ideals, mainly by looking at "The History of Karelian" Tribe in Finland published in 1915 by Väinö...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Victoria Plutshack; Ashton Merck Abstract From 1939 to 1941, the US Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the Electric Farm Equipment Show. A key part of the show was a series of appliance...
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing photo shows, orchards were often massive enterprises requiring vast amounts of capital. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p.
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and why the differing systems emanating from them affected animal industries over the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Looking at methodology through the lens of its theoretical roots provides an enriched appreciation of the interrelationship between science and practice, and also shows...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 430–436.
Published: 01 October 2009
... families, she also showed how cooperation in work generated and sustained radical farm movements. © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 NOTES 1 Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 352–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
...RICHARD C. HOFFMANN; VERENA WINIWARTER Abstract Medieval and early modern records show certain practices were common in traditional European aquaculture. These, combined with advice in coeval treatises on agricultural management, demonstrate how European agroecosystems linked terrestrial...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 506–530.
Published: 01 October 2010
..." that included a non-white laboring class. Records show that AES personnel contributed by helping to separate Native Americans from their land and water resources, prevent competition from immigrants from Asia, and Americanize non-whites. © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Notes 1 "Seth Low...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 April 2019
... mountainous Lesotho show that the location of demonstrations, the identity of the demonstrators, and their changing priorities and approaches were key factors in determining how these programs unfolded. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES 1. I use Basutoland and Lesotho...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 414–447.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of varieties used in research and entered into gene bank collections. As scientists and institutions grappled with critiques of the top-down model of development, many sought to address these through more inclusive research practices. As the article shows, accommodating diversity in crops and among cultivators...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Frank Uekötter Abstract This article discusses the role of panaceas as functional equivalents to scientific expertise. Using the example of plant nutrition in Germany, it shows how increasing fertilizer use ran against the best scientific advice in significant ways. Ultimately, the lack...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 472–499.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Mexico’s peasant farming class. Drawing upon archival records relating to the Rockefeller Foundation and numerous oral histories with braceros and their families, this article shows how rural families were driven to depend on the Bracero Program in the wake of developmental policies that disrupted...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 414–443.
Published: 01 July 2021
... shows that rural regions like Secaucus were enveloped into urban markets in the late nineteenth century. Yet, Secaucus also complicates the image of “urban imperialism” that pervades hinterland literature, demonstrating how hinterland neighbors often capitalized on urban waste. © 2021 Agricultural...
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