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Agricultural and Rural

Majewski, John, and Viken Tchakerian, “The Environmental Origins of Shifting Cultivation: Climate, Soils, and Disease in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South,” Agricultural History, 81 (Fall 2007), 522–49.

Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode, “Not on My Farm! Resistance to Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication in the United States,” Journal of Economic History, 67 (Sept. 2007), 768–809.

Pisani, Donald J., “The Squatter and Natural Law in Nineteenth-Century America,” Agricultural History, 81 (Fall 2007), 443–63.

Robinson, John W., “Samuel Bishop: A Man of Many Careers,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 70, Summer 2007), 4–17.

Ward, Jason Morgan, “‘Nazis Hoe Cotton’: Planters, pows, and the Future of Farm Labor in the Deep South,” Agricultural History, 81 (Fall 2007), 471–92.

 

Breitbach, Carrie, “Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in South Dakota: Restructuring the Cattle Beef Industry” (Syracuse University, 2006). Order No. DA3251761.

Brinda, Mark Richard, “Negotiating Historic Continuity in the Urban Landscape: Linking Historic Preservation, Economic Development, and Public Policy” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3249488.

Harris, Christopher, “The Road Less Traveled By: Rural Northern New England in Global Perspective, 1815–1960” (Northeastern University, 2007). Order No. DA3244751.

Kindell, Alexandra, “Settling the Sunset Land: California and Its Family Farmers, 1850s–1890s” (Iowa State University, 2006). Order No. DA3244379.

Oden, Derek S., “Harvest of Hazards: The Farm Safety Movement, 1940–1975” (Iowa State University, 2006). Order No. DA3243574.

Vandermeulen, David John, “The Country of the Second Chance: Economic Failure and Recovery in Atchison County, Kansas, 1865–1896” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3239953.

 

Griliches, Diane Asséo, An Appalachian Farmer’s Story: Portrait of an Extraordinary Common Man. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007. xviii, 121 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-88146-062-9.) Heavily illustrated. Includes cd.

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