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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 104–105.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Alexander S. Dawson The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927 . Timothy J. Henderson . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 104 / Agricultural History The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 317–341.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Joe Regan Abstract This article explores the lower Mississippi valley's antebellum history to uncover the role of Irish immigrant laborers in the riverine economy of the Cotton Kingdom. In particular, this article examines the experience of Irish laborers as canallers and ditchers on plantations...
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing photo shows, orchards were often massive enterprises requiring vast amounts of capital. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p.
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of supporting industries like canning factories to use less marketable produce. The “very cheap” labor was a major component in attracting investment in the fruit industry. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 4. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and skill” when packing them for shipment. Wages of a dollar a day made packing “profitable” work, but racism often limited this “light and congenial work” to only the most “eminently respectable class of people
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 292–293.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Connie Y. Chiang Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley . By Cecilia M. Tsu . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 304 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-973478-8. . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 290–291.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Rachel Newcomb Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley . By Suzanne E. Joseph . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 246 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4461-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 459–461.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Linda L. Ivey River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region . Edited by Christopher J. Castaneda and Lee M. A. Simpson . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2013 . 416 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-08229-6250-2 . © the Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2016
... that Colorado agricultural water rights were as resilient as the kawuneeche. andrews s Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history. The book began as an nPs contract history of the kawuneeche Valley...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 264–265.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Joseph E. Taylor, III Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies . By Thomas G. Andrews . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 352 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0674-08857-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring Coyote...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Christian Pinnen Defining the Delta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi Valley . Edited by Janelle Collins . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press , 2015 . 310 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-55728-687-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 620–622.
Published: 01 July 2002
...Martin Bruegel Rip Van Winkle’s Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720–1850 . Thomas S. Wermuth . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 620 / Agricultural History significance, though the domination of the great landlords declined...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 726–728.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Paul B. Moyer Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860 . Martin Bruegel . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 726 / Agricultural History "robber baron" interpretation hardly offers a compelling explanation for the rise of interest...
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Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890–1930
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Bruce Bigelow Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890–1930 . John Thompson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 735 Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 326–337.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Shore Gazetteer and Commercial Directory?, for the State of California, . . . Yolo County (San Francisco: Press of Bancroft, 1870 ), 1 -5, 43 W. James
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, The Central Valley Prairie (Sacramento: State of California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1972 ) Susan E.
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 526–527.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Steven G. Collins After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800–1900 . Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 526 / Agricultural History After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 378–379.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey Charles Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project . By Tim Stroshane . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 234 pp. $32.95 , paperback, ISBN: 978-1-9438-5906-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 378 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 765–766.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Peter N. Moore Book Reviews 765 tual history of early American science. Urmi Engineer Willoughby Huntington Library Fellow The Carolina Backcountry Venture: Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740 1810. By Kenneth E. Lewis. Columbia...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Martin Bruegel Work, Gender, and Authority on the The Hudson Valley Countryside, 1790s-1850s Farm: MARTIN BRUEGEL Scottish traveler James Stuart put a rather somber spin on his description of rural areas in the Mid-Atlantic region when, in the early 1830s, he noted, "the harvest work being...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 272–288.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Robert E. Bonner The Dam and the Valley: Land, People, and Environment Twentieth Century Below Buffalo Bill Dam in the ROBERT E. BONNER In 1915 the United States Reclamation Service (USRS) chose the Shoshone Project in Wyoming as the model for the reclamation idea at the PanamaPacific Exposition...
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