Recent Scholarship
Agricultural and Rural
Kimmelman, Barbara, “Mr. Blakeslee Builds His Dream House: Agricultural Institutions, Genetics, and Careers, 1900–1915,” Journal of the History of Biology (Dordrecht), 39 (July 2006), 241–80.
Matchett, Karin, “At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, 1940–1950,” Journal of the History of Biology (Dordrecht), 39 (July 2006), 345–72.
Ossian, Lisa L., “Bandits, Mad Men, and Suicides: Fear, Anger, and Death in a Troubled Iowa Landscape, 1929–1933,” Agricultural History, 80 (Summer 2006), 296–311.
Petrick, Gabriella M., “‘Like Ribbons of Green and Gold’: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965,” Agricultural History, 80 (Summer 2006), 269–95.
Reid, Debra A., “Furniture Exempt from Seizure: African-American Farm Families and Their Property in Texas, 1880s–1930s,” Agricultural History, 80 (Summer 2006), 336–57.
Reines, Sean, “The Vanished Community of Hurricane and the Creation of Cedars of Lebanon State Park,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Winter 2005), 309–37.
Bennett, Evan Patrick, “King Bacca’s Throne: Land, Life, and Labor in the Old Bright Belt since 1880” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3187784.
Berry, Michelle Kathleen, “Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture, and Power in the Intermountain West Range Cattle Industry, 1945–1965” (University of Arizona, 2005). Order No. DA3190613.
Miner, Craig, Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xx, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1476-1.)
Mogren, Eric W., Native Soil: A History of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xii, 288 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87580-348-7.)
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