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Agricultural

 

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, “Thomas Minor’s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 496–518.

Atto, William J., “Brooks Hays and the New Deal,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86.

Duffield, James A., Irene M. Xiarchos, and Steve A. Halbrook, “Ethanol Policy: Past, Present, and Future,” South Dakota Law Review, 53 (no. 3, 2008), 425–53.

Edgington, Ryan H., “‘Be Receptive to the Good Earth’: Health, Nature, and Labor in Countercultural Back-to-the-Land Settlements,” Agricultural History, 82 (Summer 2008), 279–308.

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

McWilliams, James E., “‘The Horizon Opened Up Very Greatly’: Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894–1927,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 468–95.

Roberts, Strother E., “‘Esteeme a Little of Fish’: Fish, Fishponds, and Farming in Eighteenth-Century New England and the Mid-Atlantic,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 143–65.

Turner, Leland, “A New Business Plan for the Matador: Murdo Mackenzie, Modern Management, and the Operational Transformation of the Matador Land and Cattle Company, 1891–1897,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 79 (2006–2007), 3–20.

 

Fabian, Rika, “Making the National Farmer: Progressive Educational Reforms and Transformation of Rural Society in the United States (1902–1918) and Japan (1920–1945)” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3297429.

Gerow, Peggy A., “‘To Do Much with Very Little’: New Mexico’s Farm Women and the Cooperative Extension Service, 1914–1929” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298176.

Kampbell, Bryan L., “The Story in the Soil: Toward an Agrarian Rhetoric of Property” (Duquesne University, 2008). Order No. DA3303018.

Zaragoza, Tony, “Apple Capital: Growers, Labor, and Technology in the Origin and Development of the Washington State Apple Industry, 1890–1930” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3302002.

 

Walker, Melissa, and James C. Cobb, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 11: Agriculture and Industry. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 354 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3240-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5909-4.)

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