... KansasStateUniversity 132 © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism: Classic Texts . Thomas R. Dunlap . ...

...Peter C. Caldwell After the ‘Socialist Spring’: Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR . By George Last . New York : Berghahn Books , 2009 . 288 pp., $95.00 , ISBN 978-1-84545-552-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring...

...Mark Fiege Silent Spring: 40th Annual Edition . Rachel Carson . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews Silent Spring: 40th Annual Edition. By Rachel Carson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.400 pp., $14.00, paperback, ISBN 0-618-24906-0. Over forty years ago...

...Janet E. Schulte Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860–1900 . David L. Richards . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall Itwas only after the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring that the nation began to awaken to the peril...

...Sandra Schackel Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicle . Laurie Wagner Buyer . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter valleysconstitutewd hatSamsoncallsthe"broadcross-sectioonftheprovince'semergingruralmiddleclasses"(78). Oftenincloseproximittyo...

... systems for over one thousand years. In dry farmed fields fed by violent monsoon storms and in terraced gardens irrigated by ancestral springs, Hopi agriculturalists perfected a system of spiritual and physical subsistence that produced the majority of food consumed in Hopi communities. During...

... hard red spring wheat region. Rust outbreaks originated in US barberry bushes, so one might think that Mexican scientists would have entered the United States to solve this problem with transnational wheat rust. Instead, the reverse occurred. Nevertheless, the MAP successfully produced new rust...

... the 1990s. For those pieces, see "Agricultural History Talks to Karen-Beth G. Scholthof,” Agricultural History 87, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 194-200; Melissa Walker, “Contemporary Agrarianism: A Reality Check,” Agricultural History 86, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 1-25; Louis Ferleger, “Arming American Agriculture...

... ) "The Battle over the Cold Spring Dam: FarmVillage Conflict and Contested Identity among Rural German Americans," Journal of American Ethnic History21 (Fall2001): 83 -117 4 Kathleen Neils Conzen , Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer (German Historical...

.... For a recent overview of Rachel Carson and the rise of environmentalism, see Dawn Biehler, Frederick Davis, Amy Hay. “Review of Rachel Carson and Silent Spring,” H-Envirohealth (H-Net Reviews: December 2017) https://networks.h-net.org/node/114427/reviews/1093325/biehler-and-davis-and-hay-carson-silent...

... Magazine 58 (Spring/Summer 2008): 4-11. 5 Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Barron’s Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press...

... : University of Toronto Press , 1959 ); Matthew G. Hatvany , “‘Wedded to the Marshes’: Salt Marshes and Socio-Economic Differentiation in Early Prince Edward Island,” Acadiensis 30 ( Spring 2001 ): 40 – 55 is an exception to this historiographic claim and an example of the insights gained from...

... 1887whentwoeventsfosteredgreaterscientific researchaboutcutoveragriculturTeh. efederalgovernmenptassedthe HatchAct,whichcreatedagricultureaxl perimensttationsa,ndthestate establishedtheMichiganForestryCommission(MFC) to studyforest 175 AgriculturHalistory Spring conditionsand thecutover.MAC presidentEdwinWillitsaddressedthis...

... AgriculturHalistory Spring colonistsin the"artofhusbandry,"impartingadvice and passingon the best-knownstrategiesforkeeping and rearingfishin enclosed ponds. The developmentof suchponds inAmerican coloniesduringthesecond halfof theeighteenthcenturymarked theculminationof a longprocess by which British...

....2009.83.2.221 221 AgricultuHraisltory Spring size had beenproducedeachyearin theUnitedStatesforoverthree decades,and after1910,the twocountrieso' utputsfollowedsimilar trendsF.lax in theWestwas notgrownforfiberb, utforseed.The seed producedlinseedoiland,withmoreprocessingp,aintandvarnish.1 Unlikewheatf...

... Parks: America's Best Idea ,” Environmental History 15 ( Apr. 2010 ): 325 – 28 ; Karl Jacoby , “Ken Burns Gone Wild: Naturalizing the Nation in The National Parks: America's Best Idea ,” Public Historian 33 ( Spring 2011 ): 19 – 23 ; and a collection of essays in the George...

... patients' distress. 569 Agricultural History Fall Itwas only after the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring that the nation began to awaken to the peril thatwas drifting across the continent. Daniel's conclusion is that an unholy trinityof chemical compa nies, theARS, and US Public Health...

... Extension Service Since 1945: An American Quest For Service and Equity," Agricultural History 60 (Spring 1986): 137-53 Carmen V. Harris, "Blacks in Agricultural Extension in South Carolina, 1900-1932" (master’s thesis, Clemson University, 1990) Melissa Walker, "Home Extension Work Among African American...

..., 1993); Monica Richmond Gisolfi, "From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939," Agricultural History 80 (Spring 2006): 167-89; Alicia Langreo, "La Articulación del Sistema Agroalimentario: Agricultura," in Lecturas sobre el Sistema Agroalimentario en...