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When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Wheat Trade
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 578–579.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Thomas D. Finger When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Wheat Trade . By André Magnan . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2016 . 216 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-3114-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 578 Agricultural...
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The Limits of Alliance: Cold War Solidarity and Canadian Wheat Exports to China, 1950–1963
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Greg Donaghy; Michael D. Stevenson Abstract Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition...
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Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 273–274.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Sean Gouglas Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 . Sterling Evans . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews a usefulintroductiotnoall thingscitrusA. nd itmayinspirea...
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Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Joshua MacFadyen 2015 Book Reviews ficult task of writing economic history. This book will go instantly into the canon of civil rights scholarship. Charles J. Holden St. Mary s College of Maryland Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat. By Emily Eaton...
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Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 382–384.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Thomas D. Finger Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop . By Catherine Zabinski . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 216 pp., $24.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-55371-9. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 382...
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Japanese Market Development Programs under PL 480 in the late 1950s: Focus on Wheat and Rice
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and other US commodities as well as wheat; (2) Judging from Japanese and US government documents, USDA officials did not intend to replace Japanese rice with US wheat; (3) Market development plans for US rice had failed due to the damaging effect on diplomatic relations with Southeast Asia...
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“We Love You People Better than We Like Ourselves”: Canada, the United States, Australia, the Soviet Union, and the International Wheat Pool Movement of the 1920s
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 404–428.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Jason McCollom Abstract In the 1920s, Canadian farmers created the world’s most successful large-scale wheat marketing organization, or wheat “pool.” In doing so, they built upon two decades of interprovincial and national cooperative endeavors, providing the pool movement a firm foundation. During...
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Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 264–265.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Andrew P. Duffin Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country . Steve Turner . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring to worldviewt,heabilityto understandthewhole,and to act appropriately...
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The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla–Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 104–105.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Alexander S. Dawson 104 / Agricultural History The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 296 pp., hardback, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2200-5; paperback, $18.95, ISBN 0...
View articletitled, The Worm in the <span class="search-highlight">Wheat</span>: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla–Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927
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Fertilization Practices in Pacific Northwest Wheat-Producing Areas
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 433–450.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Alexander C. McGregor; James F. Shepherd Fertilization Wheat-Producing Practices in Pacific Areas Northwest ALEXANDER C. McGREGOR JAMES F. SHEPHERD The inland Pacific Northwest's steeply sloped prairies have long been renowned for their exceptional fertility and wheat yields. Yet, the widespread...
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Borlaug: Volume 1, Right off the Farm, 1914–1944 Borlaug: Volume 2, Wheat Whisperer, 1944–1959
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Dana G. Dalrymple Borlaug: Volume 1, Right off the Farm, 1914–1944 . By Noel Vietmeyer . Lorton, Va. : Bracing Books , 2009 . 276 pp., $10.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-578-04125- . Borlaug: Volume 2, Wheat Whisperer, 1944–1959 . By Noel Vietmeyer . Lorton, Va. : Bracing...
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The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Paul D. Peterson The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest . By Susan Dworkin . New York : Walker & Company , 2009 . 256 pp., $26.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8027-1740-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...
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Golden Horizons: Expansion of the Wheat-Growing Industry in the Colony of Victoria in the 1850s
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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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How to Feed an Empire?: Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia, 1937–1941
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 379–416.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to rapidly make the empire self-sufficient in wheat, the main staple of the Italian population. This article analyzes the scientific foundations of the program of imperial “wheat autarky” and its materialization during the “wheat campaigns” between 1938 and 1941, particularly focusing on the introduction...
View articletitled, How to Feed an Empire?: Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and <span class="search-highlight">Wheat</span> Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia, 1937–1941
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“How to Not Win Friends”: Mundane Matters, Constant Critique, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Defense of Wheat Production in Colombia, 1950–1965
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 84–120.
Published: 01 February 2023
... agricultural modernization programs and activities in Colombia in the 1950s and 1960s. Where the Rockefeller Foundation promoted Colombian wheat production, the USDA and other US-based agencies criticized that production and instead promoted the importation of US-grown wheat through the PL 480 program...
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From Bread to Cake: A Global History of Pacific Northwest Wheat during the Cold War
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Craig Morris; David Bolingbroke Abstract This article deepens our understanding of Cold War–era agricultural history by examining the relationship between Pacific Northwest soft white wheat and Japanese importers and consumers. Recent historiography of wheat during the Cold War has focused...
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Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870–1922
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Robert Suits Abstract This article explores the role of early migrant workers (“harvest hands” or “hoboes”) in the American wheat industry. It argues that the constant threat of drought and other climatic disasters created a state of climate precarity for workers. In the variable climate...
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Winds of Change: Plant Pathology, Transnational Wheat Rust, and the Environmental Origins of the Green Revolution, 1904–1953
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
...John R. Garnett Abstract Created in 1943, the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) was a collaborative program between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government aimed at improving yields of corn and wheat varieties in Mexico. The MAP's wheat program was more influential than its corn...
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View articletitled, Winds of Change: Plant Pathology, Transnational <span class="search-highlight">Wheat</span> Rust, and the Environmental Origins of the Green Revolution, 1904–1953
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Wheat Flows and Empire-Making
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 691–693.
Published: 01 November 2023
...André Magnan [email protected] Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World . By Scott Reynolds Nelson . New York : Basic Books , 2022 . 368 pp., $32.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781541646469 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 In Oceans...
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The Green Revolution, Plant Breeding, and Wide Adaptation: Marci Baranski's The Globalization of Wheat
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 702–707.
Published: 01 November 2024
... crucial to see the term Green Revolution as an actor's category rather than as a historical event, and to study it as such. There was indeed a larger process of agricultural modernization including expanded irrigation and fertilizer use, a shift toward wheat and away from other foodgrains, and an emphasis...
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