...Jeffrey Kolnick 380 Agricultural History J. C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. By David Delbert Kruger. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. 360 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-5716-0. David Delbert Kruger has written an insider s account of James Cash Penney s...

...Brooks Blevins A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War . By Jeff Bremer . Iowa City : University of Iowa press , 2014 . 252 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-226-1 . © the Agricultural History Society...

.... As a consequence, a new discipline, naval stores chemistry, developed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the service of two competing industries. A new set of complex knowledge circulation patterns also emerged between scientists in both countries as they sought to protect their economic environment...

...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...

...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...

...David Blanke By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory . By Linda English . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . 268 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4352-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Scott P. Marler Abstract Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post–Civil War South has long been widely acknowledged, by far the most careful and influential analysis of rural merchants is Ransom and Sutch's One Kind of Freedom (1977), which used mostly region-wide data...

... the twentieth century, the rise of wage labor and increased access to cash facilitated the shift from a diet comprised primarily of traditional food produced by Hopi farmers to one dependent on food purchased in grocery stores or acquired through food aid programs, contributing to high rates of obesity...

... populations and food stores, and developing innovative political confederacies to harness the transformative and spiritual power of the Three Sisters. Through an examination of traditional ecological knowledge—what Gregory Cajete calls the “original instructions for how to care for and relate to the land...

... Nutrition Assistance Program. Since 1964, public discourses about food stamps focus mainly on the legislation and those who carry it out or those who receive federal food assistance. But what about grocery store owners and retailers? Drawing on research from my book Food Power Politics , the essay takes up...

...Shane Hamilton Abstract Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) was invented in 1945 by government researchers. To Florida orange growers beset by surplus production in some years and hard winter freezes in others, FCOJ was a "miracle" technology. Easily stored and transported, concentrate made...

... as a writer, as well as his experiences with manual farm work and the methods of environmentalist organic growers. He eventually concluded that only a community of farmers could produce and store effective knowledge and insisted that knowledge must be tacit—largely situated in locality, skills, and culture...

... ), 4 -18 5 Michael V. Kennedy , "’Debtr to the Store’: The Central Place of Iron works’ and Mill Stores in MidAtlantic Markets, 1725-1800," William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming, 2001 ) 6 James T. Lemon , The Best Poor Man’s Country: A Geographical Study of Early...

... century. Ownby shows us the kinds of stores that existed in the nineteenth cen? tury, ranging from small general stores to planter-run stores primarily for sharecroppers. He describes the gendered and racial dimension of such stores and shopping, the role of credit and cash, the kinds of goods offered...

... of the general store: Women and the economy in eighteenth century Horton, Nova Scotia ," Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759–1800 , ed. Margaret Conrad (Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1995 ), 167 -81. 28 Isaac Stephenson , Recollection of a Long Life...

... a rice product as a primary source that can reveal much about the people and society that consume it. By examining the text and images on the item's packaging as well as its context within a physical or online store, students learn how material culture can reveal the capabilities and preferences...

...Virgil W. Dean Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 T-Town on the Plains . R. Alton Lee . Book Reviews / 835 tent to explain the workings of the stores, their content or stock, the role they played in customer's lives, the changing nature of marketing and ad? vertising...

..., the Store, and American Agriculture By David Delbert Kruger 29.95$ HARDCOVER 360 PAGES 25 B&W ILLUS. What is now called JCPenney, a xture of suburban hoppings malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion...

... to being self-sustaining on their little farms. In a good year they will have plenty of corn for themselves and their stock; they have chickens and eggs, milk and butter, and plenty of meat from their own hogs; honey and sorghum provide sweetening." He noted that subsis? tence farmers were adept at storing...

... within retailing itself: local blacks violating the white business community's racial prerogatives, chain stores violating principles of fair competition, and individual irresponsibility that col? lapsed traditional credit systems. Each of these views tended to demonize people who were fundamental...