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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 491–511.
Published: 01 October 2018
... facilitated the development of rural society in the colony of Victoria. A large number of annual agricultural shows and contests held by local farmers’ associations with active government support encouraged innovation and experimentation among producers by awarding prizes for the best results. Such events...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Dmytro Ostapenko Abstract The wheat-farming industry developed rapidly in the British Australian colony of Victoria between the late 1840s and early 1860s. Contrary to prevailing academic views, this paper demonstrates that the 1851 gold discoveries set up favorable economic conditions...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 78–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Benjamin Wilkie Abstract This article highlights the important function of family and kinship networks in the pastoral industry of the Port Phillip District and Victoria, Australia, during the nineteenth century. Using the core case study of the extended Cameron family—or the Cameron “clan” from...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 187–214.
Published: 01 April 2017
... as the Commonwealth of Australia, Victoria was a self-governing colony of Great Britain. The term “closer settler” refers to settlers placed on estates purchased by the Victorian government after 1904 . 2. Bruce R. Davidson , European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming ( New...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Victoria Seta Cosby [email protected] Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . By Jodey Nurse . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2022 . 360 pp. $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780228009153. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Victoria Plutshack; Ashton Merck Abstract From 1939 to 1941, the US Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the Electric Farm Equipment Show. A key part of the show was a series of appliance...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2017
... will make it less accessible to undergraduates. For the realities 98 of labor, agribusiness, and social change in Honduras, John Soluri s Banana Cultures remains the go-to work. Jason M. Colby University of Victoria Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest. By Megan Birk. Chicago...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., and the regional history of northeast England. James P. Bowen The Victoria County History of Herefordshire and the University of Liverpool Peasants and Historians: Debating the Medieval English Peasantry. By Phillipp R. Schofield. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 288 pp., $29.99, paperback, ISBN 978...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 442–444.
Published: 01 July 2017
... is the role and views of agribusiness corporations and local and regional agrarian elites, creating an unbalanced picture of those who largely benefited from GM soybeans expansion. Diana Córdoba University of Victoria Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in NineteenthCentury Brazil...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 290–310.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... 2013, Yarra Valley. Interviews were conducted with forty apple growers throughout the state of Victoria, Australia (Harcourt, Yarra Valley, Gippsland, Melbourne, Goulburn Valley, Bacchus Marsh, Mornington Peninsula), in 2012 and 2013. 2. Apple and Pear Australia Ltd ., “Annual Report 2013–2014...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and William Candy , Reminiscences of the Mallee and Wimmera (first published in the Warracknabeal Herald , 1925 and 1927 ; reprint, Donvale : Lowden Publishing Co. , 2009 ), 17 ; James Kirby , Old Times in the Bush of Australia: Trials and Experiences of Early Bush Life in Victoria during...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of wheat a way f redeeming the land and forging a modern nation. © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Notes 1. The Train undertook thirty-eight tours across Victoria from 1924–1935, with seven visiting various areas of the Mallee. The final tour the Train undertook was to the northwestern...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 27–49.
Published: 01 January 2005
...-Examination (South Melbourne: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1971 ), 106 -107 William
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, The Colony of Victoria: its History, Commerce, and Gold Mining; Its Social and Political Institutions; down to the End of 1863 (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1864 ), 267 William...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
... Mackay Mercury , Nov. 13 , 1882 A. Fairgrieve, Inspector of Mills, Broadwater, to Edward W Knox, Sydney, Sept. 30,1881,142/ 2869,95 A. Fairgrieve, Inspector of Mills, to E. Cowley, Victoria Mill, May 13,1884,142/2867, 285 Edward W. Knox, Sydney, to C. Forster, Manager, Victoria Mill, July...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 212–232.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Change, Land Holding and the Development of Agriculture in Northern Victoria, 1870–1914,” in Beyond the Black Stump , 179–210; D. W. Meinig, On the Margins of the Good Earth , 121; J. M. Powell, “Patrimony of the People: the Role of Government in Land Settlement,” in The Australian Experience: Essays...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Eric Smaw Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle against Hate Speech . By Victoria Saker Woeste . Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2012 . 424 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-80477-234-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews appeal...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 April 2005
... growth, coinciding with the election of a new Liberal government whose leader would soon proclaim the twentieth century as "Canada's Century," and attracting tens of thousands of adventurers to the far northwest corner of Canadian ter? ritory in the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria's reign, when imperial...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and Survey, Unit 2045 , correspondence 1931–1932, Victorian Public Records Series, 5714/P0 Land Settlement Files, Public Record Office Victoria, Aus. 15. “Irony of Nature’s Changing Mood: Farmers Who Regretted Leaving E. P.,” Advertiser (S. Aus.), Feb. 14, 1932 , 7 . A bag is a traditional...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Harmless, Useful and Ornamental, Pete Minard examines one group who made zoological introductions not for personal benefit, but with an eye to the greater good, the members of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria (ASV), formed in 1861. Their intentions were not always fulfilled, and the English hares...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 68–101.
Published: 01 January 2019
... is A Farmer?” Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, June 8-10, 2017, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 3. Rollo Arnold, “The Opening of the Great Bush, 1869-1881: A Social History of the Bush Settlements of Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington” (PhD diss., Victoria University of Wellington, 1971), 375; also...
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