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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 331–361.
Published: 01 April 2021
... restrictions on federally subsidized water to owner-occupied farms of one hundred sixty acres or less. He campaigned for the enforcement of these provisions for four decades, until they were eliminated by the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982. This article explores the sources of Taylor’s attachment to small-farm...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 971–978.
Published: 01 April 2021
... comments, connecting them one to another. They share a common origin (an Agricultural History Society session), their titles are related, and they all address agricultural policy and small farms. Despite these appearances, however, each article takes a quite distinctive tack that leads it to diverge from...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 313–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Anne Effland Abstract Rhetoric surrounding the family farm ideal frequently interchanges or combines the terms “small” and “family,” suggesting a fusing of those ideas in the common understanding. But an examination of the meanings and definitions of those terms over time reveals an evolution...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 459–483.
Published: 01 October 2016
... for the law’s failure and argued that large plantations and sharecropping was the Philippines’ best path to development. From Small Farms to Progressive Plantations: The Trajectory of Land Reform in the American Colonial Philippines, 1900 1916 THERESA VENTURA In 1903 the American colonial government...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 486–488.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Dwayne Mack Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi . Gayle Graham Yates . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 486 / AgriculturaHl istory In her well-researchedand well-organizedstudy,Sandersoffers an intriguing examinationof how...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 January 2010
... ’correct’ view. "The wicked problem construct is applied to four core ideas in the history of agricultural development—small farms, cash crops, agrarian ideals, and international development—to demonstrate the potential for using this concept to approach complex problems of historical interpretation...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 267–268.
Published: 01 April 2010
...James L. Forsythe Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests . Richard E. Wood . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews issuesofperceptionand languagethatshouldalertus to thebrittlenesosf ourmodel.To methesetermsconveysomesortofspectrumthathas...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 430–431.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Robert Gudmestad On Slavery's Borders: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865 . By Diane Mutti Burke . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3683-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract This essay examines persistence and change in very small communities, something that has particularly concerned researchers since the 1930s. The USDA examined these issues in its “Culture of A Contemporary Rural Community” series in the early 1940s and re-evaluated...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 82–105.
Published: 01 January 2002
...–73, and 259 31 Longview Daily News , 13 March1928 Negotiating "the Circle of Friendship": Agriculture, Cooperation, and Diversity in a Small-Town Revitalization Program, 1926-1930 DEB HOSKINS Extension of the circle of friendship is naturally advantageous to the country and city residents...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 364–380.
Published: 01 April 2002
.... 31 Dodson, "Identifying Underutilized Ground Water Resources," iii South Central Texas Regional Water Planning Group, Maps, "Water Demand and Population Figures, 1990," http:// www.watershedexperience.com , accessed 21 September 2001 Endangered Groundwater Species: and Small Towns...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 614–615.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Stephen Macekura Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development . By Daniel Immerwahr . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28994-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future . By Robert Wuthnow . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2013 . 498 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-15720-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 462–464.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Debra A. Reid Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War . By Adrienne Monteith Petty . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 296 pp., $74.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-993852-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 451–453.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Sara E. Morris The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century . By Julian Couch . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2016 . 230 pp., $35.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60908-405-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 451 some white...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Megan Birk Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory . Jonathan Zimmerman . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews proponents (213). The failure also makes the yeomen look prescient, which leads Strom to sometimes romanticize them.And...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Nora Pat Small The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America . Robert F. Ensminger . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 123 horses, and dogs. An important missed opportunity is the lack of integration of the interface...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 544–546.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Nora Pat Small Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, 1799-1859 . J. Ritchie Garrison . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall five-yearperiod. Further, from1990 to 2002, chapter 12 farmbankruptcy rates, which indicate...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of the United States canned tomato pack. During most of these years, they processed millions of cases of canned tomatoes either on the farm or in small, family-owned and operated canneries. The social and economic environment of the area largely determined the rise and decline of canning in the Ozarks...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 317–345.
Published: 01 July 2004
... rural credit, primarily in the form of mortgage loans. Such local financial institutions embraced a social mission of aiding the poor and promoting small producers, while seeking to encourage economic modernization and Czech national revival. Strengthening the economic position of small agricultural...