Recent Scholarship
Agricultural
Block, Daniel R., “Public Health, Cooperatives, Local Regulation, and the Development of Modern Milk Policy: The Chicago Milkshed, 1900–1940,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Jan. 2009), 128–53.
Dennis, Benjamin N., and Talan B. Iscan, “Engel versus Baumol: Accounting for Structural Change Using Two Centuries of U.S. Data,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 186–202.
Harris, Carmen V., “States’ Rights, Federal Bureaucrats, and Segregated 4-H Camps in the United States, 1927–1969,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Summer 2008), 362–88.
Jones, Joseph J., “Good for a National Cemetery: Questions of Land Use and an 1888 Botanical Expedition across Northern Michigan,” Agricultural History, 83 (Spring 2009), 174–200.
MacFayden, Joshua D., “Breaking Sod or Breaking Even? Flax on the Northern Great Plains and Prairies, 1889–1930,” Agricultural History, 83 (Spring 2009), 221–46.
Reonas, Matthew, “Delta Planters and the Eudora Floodway: The Politics of Persistence in 1930s Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Spring 2009), 159–87.
Wagner, Alexandra M., “Grasshoppered: America’s Response to the 1874 Rocky Mountain Locust Invasion,” Nebraska History, 89 (Winter 2008), 154–67.
Bennett, Jason Patrick, “Blossoms and Borders: Cultivating Apples and a Modern Countryside in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–2001” (University of Victoria, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR41176.
Ganz, Marshall, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 344 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-19-516201-1.)
Laymon, Sherry, Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902–1954. (Little Rock: Butler Center, 2009. 239 pp. Cloth, $37.95, isbn 978-0-9800897-6-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9800897-7-6.)
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