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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 133.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Brady Banta Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South . George Ellenberg . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews MuleSouthtoTractorSouth:Mules,Machinesa,nd theTransformatiofnthe CottonSouth.By GeorgeEllenbergT...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 423–424.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Michael Winslow Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940 . Edited by Julia Brock and Daniel Vivian . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2015 . 222 pp., $85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 128–129.
Published: 01 January 2007
...,rowemakesthecollection'sonlydirectreference to thecentralitoyfcommerciaalgriculturienshapingthephysicaland social landscapesof the South. The absenceofagriculturferomthisvolume'streatmenotfthesouthern environmenits apparentlyintentionalA. ccordingto poet JohnLane, most writingabout southernplaces has emphasizedthe culturallandscapesof farms...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 January 2007
... theprioritieosfthisscholaron thework of these agriculturahl istoriansL. et us applaud theircontributionto the literature. ChristineIngebritsen Universitoyf Washington Slave CountryA: mericanExpansion and theOriginsof theDeep South. By Adam Rothman. Cambridge:Harvard UniversityPress, 2005. 296 pp., $35.00,hardback,ISBN 0-674...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 381–406.
Published: 01 July 2007
...S. Max Edelson Abstract English colonists and African slaves began occupying the South Carolina Lowcountry in the late seventeenth century. During the eighteenth century thousands of slaves cleared thousands of acres of swamplands to create the colony’s signature rice fields and secure its place...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Sally McMillen Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South . Lu Ann Jones . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 121 South Side Project, a privately promoted Carey Act project which succeeded magnificently, and the Minidoka project which succeeded...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 522–549.
Published: 01 October 2007
...John Majewski; Viken Tchakerian Abstract Farmers and planters in the antebellum South held large tracts of unimproved land because they practiced shifting cultivation. Southern cultivators burned tracts of forest growth to quickly release nutrients into the soil. After five or six years, when...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Gordon M. Patterson Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South . Pete Daniel . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews ToxicDrift:PesticidesandHealth in thePostWorldWar II South.By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 471–492.
Published: 01 October 2007
... plantation economy. Despite the limited scope and dubious success rate of POW labor, cotton planters in the Deep South found a temporary workforce to hold a place on the plantation for African-American labor. Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Notes 1 Samuel Lee Morgan. "Nazis Hoe...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 155–165.
Published: 01 April 2004
... on world events and this incident in particular is his work, The Trouble in Mexico and Its Only Solution (San Antonio: J. R. Wood Printing Co., 1914 ) Putnam, "Grows 65 Bushels of Corn," reprinted in Dominguez, The Modern Cultivation of Corn, 344 The Corn King of Mexico in the A South-North...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Tore C. Olsson 168 Agricultural History Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South. By Andrew Baker. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. 237 pp., $59.95, hardcover, ISBN 9-780-8203-5414-9. In historical narratives of post 1945 US suburbanization, the central...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Armando C. Alonzo Abstract Conservation of natural resources in South Texas is basically a modern development that parallels the evolution of the Soil Conservation Service and other federal agricultural agencies. Since the World War II era, Hispanic producers have played an important role...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 362–385.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Kelly Kean Sharp Abstract Agricultural and environmental historians of the US South have in the last three decades focused on planters’ engagement with scientific pursuits as a means toward financial and environmental improvement. But in focusing on these failed attempts of conservation husbandry...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 669–671.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Scott E. Giltner A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 . By Daniel J. Vivian . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 358 pp. $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-1690-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 673–675.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Michael Pasquier Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience . Edited by Cindy Ermus . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2018 . 216 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6710-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Monica Richmond Gisolfi Abstract In 1929 rural sociologist Rupert Vance surveyed the southern landscape, seeing no end in sight to the cotton production that impoverished the South. In search of ways for cotton farmers to diversify, Vance noted that "whether equitable or not, a system of division...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Paul Christopher Anderson Slavery and the American South . Winthrop D. Jordan . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 112 / Agricultural History More worrisome is the lack of a thesis. Event after event occurs, trend after trend play themselves out, but rarely does...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Robert Peden Abstract The burning of the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand by pastoralists in the second half of the nineteenth century has been highly contentious. The dogma of "indiscriminate burning" has become so entrenched in New Zealand’s environmental history that critics...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 496–497.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South . Robert B. Outland III . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 496 / AgriculturaHl istory of politicsreshapedsocial and economic processes.The authoralso keeps climate change in focus so...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
... , Breaking New Ground (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1947 ), 61 -62 Gerald W. Williams, "Private Property to Public Property: The Beginnings of the National Forests in the South," transcript of paper presented to the American Society of Environmental History, Providence, R.I., Mar. 29,2003...