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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 258–259.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Peter D. Griggs Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885 . By G. Roger Knight . Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press , 2014 . 256 pp., $44.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-922064-98-1. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
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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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
Published: 01 July 2020
... was a learning process for Chilean agriculturalists. The first “mammoth” steam tractors proved unsuitable for Chile’s farming practices, but, as US manufacturers produced more efficient models and local distributors successfully marketed them, landowners learned about their advantages. In the 1920s they adopted...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
Published: 01 July 2013
... , Encyclopedia , 382 – 95 ; Sears, Roebuck & Co. , Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers Guide Spring 1897 ( Chicago : Sears, Roebuck , 1897 ), 148 . 8. Reynold M. Wik , Steam Power on the American Farm ( 1953 ; repr., Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1959 ), 5 – 6...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 378–380.
Published: 01 July 2006
... inland steam commerce, which in its heyday the authors argue, "rivaled the Ohio River system and that portion of the Mississippi River lying between St. Louis and Baton Rouge" (16). The first steamboat reached New Orleans in January 1812, and soon the steamboat industry spread from the city...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 708–709.
Published: 01 July 2000
... perceptions of its total impact. For there were in fact both technological limits and sociocultural restraints to the capacity of Victorian industrialists, engineers, builders, and landowners to disrupt existing ecosys? tems. Steam power was very much less flexible than its successors the electromagnetic...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 384–386.
Published: 01 April 2021
... but was rooted in the mills, warehouses, rivers, streets, and people of this filthy yet fascinating place. Chapter Four, Power and the People, complicates the story of the introduction of steam-powered textile-spinning machinery by placing it squarely in the center of a complex tale of capital, labor...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., Alabama. 34 "Commercial Spirit at the South," De Bow’s Review2 (September1846): 122 A. G. Summer, "Anniversary Address delivered before the Southern Central Agricultural Society, Macon, Georgia, 4 October 1852, South Carolina," Steam Power Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, Augusta, Georgia, 1853...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 July 2006
... commerce on the major waterways of the state's sugar region: Bayous Lafourche, Teche, Courtableau; Vermillion River, and the Atchafalaya Basin. Because most studies of the steamboat industry have fo? cused on larger river traffic lines, this work contributes an important look at the region's inland steam...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 248–252.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Unsurprisingly, triumphant tales of fossil-fuel driven, technological “advances” have given way to far more unsettled and unsettling narratives. The very symbol of industrialization—the steam engine—is now looked on with bitter irony, recast as the epitome of the self-reinforcing logic of productionism: an early...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., 9, 12, 31 George H. Drury, Guide to North American Steam Locomotives: History and Development of Steam Power Since 1900 (Waukesha, Wise: Kalmbach, 1993), 300. 3 IC, Organization and Traffic of the Illinois Central System. 4 Roy V. Scott, Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 July 2014
... products. Another genre of rural buildings, from haystacks to silos, served for the storage of hay and grains. Falk points out that round tower silos, so seemingly traditional, were not possible until the 1890s, when steam traction engines were able to power an elevator and lift 444 2014 Book Reviews grain...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830 1885. By G. roger knight. adelaide: university of adelaide Press, 2014. 256 pp., $44.00, paperback, isBn 978-1-922064-98-1. Today indonesia, or more specifically the island of Java, relies on imports of sugar to meet its domestic demand. yet...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 April 2020
... hills contained small communities. Americans living in the region raised livestock, cultivated crops, and extracted minerals, which they processed and shipped. Steam power proved essential. It enabled increased production at mills, and steamboats ably navigated the region s river systems, providing...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 469–487.
Published: 01 October 2017
... of extracting gold from the quartz veins and lowering the water table enough to make deep-vein mining worth the effort. Professional miners began employing steam pumps and large mills to combat these problems starting in the late 1820s, though they were expensive. For more on the technology involved in deep...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 July 2001
... to mechanize agriculture are listed randomly, and a discussion of foreign policy incorrectly implies that the Report to the Club ofRome (1972) preceded the Point Four program (1950). Unqualified generalizations?"The Industrial Revolution is usually dated from 1776, when James Watt invented the steam engine...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 618–620.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and the technological developments that facilitated rapid increases in output. Images of work logs and gin houses in the Mississippi Valley, steam engines and vacuum pans in sugar ingenios , and the drying terraces on coffee fazendas in Brazil all dramatically illustrate new modes and spaces of production...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 364–365.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of industrial fishing. Fagan utilizes archaeologist James Barrett s idea of the Fish Event Horizon, a term describing the rise of international fishing industries around roughly 1000 AD. Ultimately, the internationalization of fisheries fostered new technologies such as trawlers and steam engines...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 445–446.
Published: 01 July 2014
...) utilized horsepower, windmills, and, later, steam and gas engines before rural electrification became common in the mid-twentieth century. Throughout Barns of New York, Falk keeps her focus on the changing processes of American agriculture and the ways in which barns and other agricultural buildings either...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 April 2021
... might begin, such as the invention of the steam engine. The chapters present a swift tour of each discipline with numerous images, mini-biographies, and key works. Given the breadth and brevity of each section, this book represents a starting point for future reading and research. Merchant expects...
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