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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, 1893) foldout in back of book.

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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 More
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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 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. More
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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 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. More
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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 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). More
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Contour farming on a sloped field with alternating rows of corn, grain, and hay. Stacks of hay line the contours. Forested hills and open farmland extend into the background.

Westby (Vernon County), Wisconsin. Contour strip cropping showing corn, gra...

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in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl > Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 6. Westby (Vernon County), Wisconsin. Contour strip cropping showing corn, grain, alfalfa, grain, alfalfa (1937). Photograph by George V. Gideon. Source: Douglas Helms Collection, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. More
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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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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). More
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Genetics, Biotechnology, and Breeding: North American Shorthorn Production in the Twenty-First Century

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Margaret Derry
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 54–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.1.054
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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A “Complicated Humbug”: Slavery, Capitalism, and Accounts in the Cotton South

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Ian Beamish
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 36–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.1.36
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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Farm Machinery Users, Designers, and Government Policy in Argentina, 1861–1930

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Yovanna Pineda
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 351–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.351
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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“Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940

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Victoria Plutshack, Ashton Merck
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11058436
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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The Peasants of the Forest: Masculinity, Nation, and Landscapes in Agrarian Historiography in Finland, 1900–1930

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Ann-Catrin Östman
Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 62–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.1.62
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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Figure 1. Superflies Will Free US from Worm Infestations, ca. 1984, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/7271 (accessed August 29, 2023).

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in Radiating South: Atomic Agriculture, US-Mexico Relations, and the Screwworm > Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1. Superflies Will Free US from Worm Infestations , ca. 1984, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/7271 (accessed August 29, 2023). More
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Figure 2. Superflies Will Free US from Worm Infestations, ca. 1984, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/7271 (accessed August 29, 2023).

Superflies Will Free US from Worm Infestations , ca. 1984, Special Collecti...

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in Radiating South: Atomic Agriculture, US-Mexico Relations, and the Screwworm > Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2. Superflies Will Free US from Worm Infestations , ca. 1984, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/7271 (accessed August 29, 2023). More
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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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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. More
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Oxen to Organs: Chattel Credit in Springdale Town, 1849–1900

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Allan G. Bogue, Brian Q. Cannon, Kenneth J. Winkle
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 420–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.3.420
Published: 01 July 2003
... development, production patterns, and the ethnocultural backgrounds, tenure, and gender of the farm operators. They provide comparative data on the extent to which the farmers also borrowed on landed security. They include two detailed case histories of unsuccessful chattel borrowers but also show...
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Slavery and American Agricultural History

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Gavin Wright
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 527–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.4.527
Published: 01 October 2003
... that American agricultural history would have been very different had these votes tipped the other way. Evidence from three outlying slave regions--the Kentucky bluegrass, Missouri’s "Little Dixie," and the wheat belt of Virginia--shows that slavery could adapt readily to crops and regions commonly considered...
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Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice

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Shane Hamilton
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 557–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.4.557
Published: 01 October 2003
... from a damaged crop of oranges as from a bumper crop. This case study thus calls into question the meaning of "rationalized" agriculture, showing that the logic of capitalist agriculture is not always straightforward. Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Notes 1 John McPhee...
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Theory and Method: An Analysis of European and American Animal Breeding Practices, from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

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Margaret E. Derry
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.324
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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Tools for Overcoming Crisis: Agriculture, Scarcity, and Ideas of Rural Mechanization in Late Qing China

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Peter B. Lavelle
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.386
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter B. Lavelle Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, China experienced agricultural and ecological crises of increasing frequency and severity. This article shows how these crises fostered discussion among Chinese elites about the value of steam-powered machines for agricultural...
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Modernization in the Periphery: The Introduction of the Tractor in Chile, 1910–1935

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Claudio Robles-Ortiz
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.413
Published: 01 July 2020
...Claudio Robles-Ortiz Abstract This is the first study of the introduction of the tractor in a Latin American country before 1930. Challenging conventional views on agricultural mechanization in Chile, the article shows that a progressive sector of upper-class landowners and state experts introduced...
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