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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Craig E. Colten Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region . By Christopher J. Manganiello . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2005-3. © 2016 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Thomas G. Alexander Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 . Donald J. Pisani . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 120 / Agricultural History areas more susceptible to numerous negative conditions...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 704–706.
Published: 01 July 2000
...Herbert T. Hoover Uphill against Water: The Great Dakota Water War . Peter Carrels . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 704 / Agricultural History Tolnay's discussion of marriage patterns examines factors that "likely en? couraged early marriage and discouraged permanent...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 283–284.
Published: 01 April 2011
...David Schorr Water Wisdom: Preparing the Groundwork for Cooperative and Sustainable Water Management in the Middle East . Edited By Alon Tal and Alfred Abed Rabbo . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2010 . 336 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-0815-4770-1 , $29.95...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 440–442.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and related activities in rural spaces. Terence Young California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 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. This book, while...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 385–387.
Published: 01 July 2004
... Mississippi Silver Fox ofthe Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. By Daniel Tyler. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.416 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 1-8061-3515-8. Delphus E. Carpenter may not be a name that immediately comes to mind in the complicated annals of western water...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 644–645.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Michael Welsh For those who are interested in how such a small source of water (the San Luis Valley holds less than 1 percent of all of Colorado's stream flows) could attract so much attention from scholars, scientists, and visitors alike, David Stiller's work is a good start. Another generation...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 April 2004
... in 1954 was a great boost to water conservation and flood control. The last forty years have seen a rapid growth in wildlife ranches and the sale of rangelands to prosperous professionals and businessmen and women. At present, three thousand Hispanic producers are dedicated to conserving their water...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 April 2020
...James Patterson Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay . Edited by Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2018 . 344 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3714-3. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 94–116.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and to archivist Bob Shuster and other staff members at the Billy Graham Center Archives. Finally, the author thanks the anonymous readers of Agricultural History for their suggestions.
Diana Lary , “The Waters Covered the Earth: China's War-Induced Natural Disasters,” in War & State Terrorism...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 451–478.
Published: 01 October 2010
...–16. Hugh H. Wooten and Lewis A. Jones, "The History of Our Drainage Enterprises," in Yearbook of Agriculture 1955: Water (Washington, DC: GPO, 1955): 485–88 William B. Meyer, "When Dismal Swamps Became Priceless Wetlands," American Heritage 45 (May– June 1994): 108–16. "Irrigation and Drainage...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 137–138.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Anthony Dutton Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico . María Luz Cruz-Torres . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews not facilitatean objectiveevaluationof WorldWar I conscriptionin the South.Rather,suchan...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 681–683.
Published: 01 October 2020
...David Reid Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos after Zapata, 1920–1940 . By Salvador Salinas . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2018 . 272 pp. $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3720-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 681 or fictional setting from...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 538–539.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Chad Raymond Book Reviews Asia Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swid dening Community inVietnam's Northern Highland. By Tran Duc Vien, A.Terry Rambo, and Nguyen Thanh Lam. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2009.456 pp., $89.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-920901-29-5. Farming...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Yan Gao The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China . By David A. Pietz . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter on artificial...
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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 (2024) 98 (2): 187–222.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Anna Lehr Mueser Abstract This article explores collective memories about lost farms in New York City's watershed. It argues that farms taken by eminent domain for two water supply reservoirs came to symbolize lost rural and agricultural lifeways in the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 36–69.
Published: 01 January 2007
... that abetted the enactment of the Florence-Casa Grande Project of 1916. Using a combination of Pima voices and modern GIS analysis substantiates that the Pima were versatile in responding to severe water deprivation a century ago and adapted by scaling back the amount of land they cultivated, eliminating...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 125–127.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Jaclyn J. S. Miller [email protected] Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains . By Lucas Bessire . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2022 . 264 pp., $18.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780691216430 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 251–253.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Rohan D’Souza Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History . By David Gilmartin . Oakland : University of California Press , 2015 . 376 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-28529-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 251 in the United States...
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