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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Margaret E. Derry Abstract In the twentieth century a conflict arose between geneticists and practical breeders over which theory of heredity should direct animal breeding strategies and methods. Two different approaches existed and competed with each other over how to develop a breeding...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 502–519.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Shane Hamilton Abstract The field of agricultural history could benefit from interdisciplinary engagement with theoretical work. Rather than chiding agricultural historians for avoiding theory, this essay suggests specific ways in which many agricultural historians are already engaging with theory...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 733–734.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Jay Rubenstein Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England’s Economic Development . John Hatcher and Mark Bailey . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 733 Halpern's last chapter is in some respects the most interesting for she takes...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 409–410.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Hanes Walton, Jr. African American Politics in Rural America: Theory, Practice, and Case Studies from Florence County, South Carolina . E. Ike Udogu . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews But the book does more than present the variety of practice. Its...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of theory and as a form of practice, may be grounded in something less savory than epistemological superiority or the ability to improve farming practice. This article explores how the meaning of farm management changed substantially over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 84–120.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Rebecca Tally Abstract In the mid-twentieth century, both public and private US development agencies organized a variety of global agricultural development programs based on various interpretations of modernization theory. In much of the existing historical literature about modernization theory...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 January 2014
... modified the producer-populist “labor theory of value” to create a “technological surplus value ideology,” which framed invention as productive labor. The firm's initiative to mold McCormick heritage into recognized national history through advertising, sales agents, exhibitions, and ultimately a campaign...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
...JOSEPH M. HODGE Abstract This article draws attention to the unfolding debate concerning forest cover loss, climatic change, and declining cocoa production in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) during the early twentieth century. It argues that, although desiccationist theory was prevalent, its...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 536–558.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of practicing agriculture in a marginal environment and their ability to succeed in the face of periodic, intense, drought. An extension of older weather modification theories—such as rain follows the plow—rainmaking facilitated hope and empowered believers. Doubters, meanwhile, participated under the guise...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 50–73.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Laurie Carlson Abstract William Jasper Spillman (1863-1931) developed wheat hybrids at Washington State Agricultural College in 1899 and was the first to explain Mendelian theories to an agricultural audience. He moved to the USDA in Washington, DC, where he pioneered the field of farm management...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 258–292.
Published: 01 April 2003
... on federalism, a theory as old as the Constitution, to justify their tolerance of civil rights violations in Texas and elsewhere. Then, special needs legislation passed during the 1970s and 1980s did not realize its potential to serve ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged rural Texans...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 434–435.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and Russia. By Loren Graham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 224 pp., $24.94, hardback, ISBN 978-06740-8905-1. Lysenko s Ghost is a slim, well-written reappraisal of Trofim Lysenko s theories of acquired characteristics from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, as the emerging science...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 January 2008
... to build a model meant to be "applicable to the entire range of the practical sciences" within Germany and beyond (234). Agricultural colleges, he argues, provide a particularly good lens onto the shifting relationship between practice and theory, since agricultural academics were so perfectly poised...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 580–609.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... A few words of explanation on the structure of the article might be in order. First, my concentration on the situation in Britain and Galton's theories, with reference to North American views in relation to them, is designed to provide examples of attitudes within what was a widespread eugenic world...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 96–97.
Published: 01 January 2017
...-modified landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon. His strong command of literature ranging from scientific studies of human ecology, to economic history, to recent social theory inspired by the work of Philippe Descola, gives Amazonia in the Anthropocene a wide range of applications. Along with Jeffrey Hoelle s...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 225–230.
Published: 01 May 2022
... or oppositional terms when nature is understood as the very field on which the cultural elaborates and develops itself.” 1 Even earlier, the architects of actor network theory and “flat ontology” (Bruno Latour, Michael Callon, John Law, among others) had taken aim at the same target. 2 The environmental...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 488–490.
Published: 01 August 2023
... reading of the empirical materials, its deep engagement with Marxist theories and classical agrarian studies, and, most importantly, its nuanced interpretations of the Cambodian genocide. The book provides the first monograph-length account of the Democratic Kampuchea that questions the CPK's Marxist...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 254–255.
Published: 01 April 2004
... regarding the development of corn, one can not be sure of the true story. Some promote the theory that teosinte (an ancient and now extinct wild ancestor of corn) is corn's immediate ancestor. Others postulate that a wild grass now extinct was the ancestor of corn. Still a third group discount both theories...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 436–443.
Published: 01 August 2024
... distorting effects of government programs. The critical political economy of Lowi and McConnell as well as the neoliberal theories of Stigler and others overlooked a key component of the agricultural policy domain: the idea that agriculture posed unique economic challenges and farmers were uniquely...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 731–733.
Published: 01 October 2002
... University ofWaterloo Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory ofEngland's Economic Development. By John Hatcher and Mark Bailey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 254 pp., $49.95, hardback, ISBN 0-19-924411-1; $19.95, paper? back, ISBN 0-19-924412-X. John Hatcher and Mark Bailey have produced...
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