Recent Scholarship
Agricultural and Rural
Craig, Steve, “‘The More They Listen, the More They Buy’: Radio and the Modernizing of Rural America, 1930–1939,” Agricultural History, 80 (Winter 2006), 1–16.
Devine, Jenny Barker, “‘Quite a Ripple But No Revolution’: The Changing Roles of Women in the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation, 1921–1951,” Annals of Iowa, 64 (Winter 2005), 1–36.
Gisolfi, Monica Richmond, “From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929–1939,” Agricultural History, 80 (Spring 2006), 167–89.
Larson, Grace H., and Henry E. Erdman, “Aaron Sapiro: Genius of Farm Co-operative Promotion, Part 2,” Western States Jewish History, 38 (Winter 2006), 171–86.
McLeman, Robert, “Migration Out of 1930s Rural Eastern Oklahoma: Insights for Climate Change Research,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Winter 2006), 27–40.
Perren, Richard, “Farmers and Consumers under Strain: Allied Meat Supplies in the First World War,” Agricultural History Review (Oxford), 53 (part II, 2005), 212–28.
Peters, Scott J., “‘Every Farmer Should Be Awakened’: Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Vision of Agricultural Extension Work,” Agricultural History, 80 (Spring 2006), 190–219.
Reynolds, Terry S., “‘Quite an Experiment’: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915,” Agricultural History, 80 (Winter 2006), 64–98.
Smith, John David, “Introduction to the University Press of Florida Edition,” in Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones, ed. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt, v–xl. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xliv, 596 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2976-7.)
Sterling, Evans, “Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950,” Agricultural History, 80 (Winter 2006), 35–63.
Wedin, Walter F., “Seeds and Swedes: Emigrant Clover from Alsike,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 57 (Jan. 2006), 33–59.
Wells, Christopher W., “The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880–1905,” Agricultural History, 80 (Spring 2006), 143–66.
Anderson, Joseph Leslie, “Industrializing the Corn Belt: Iowa Farmers, Technology, and the Midwestern Landscape, 1945–1972” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184581.
Britton, Glenn Worth, “‘Improving’ the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890 to 1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181743.
Helphand, Kenneth I., Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. xvi, 303 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-59534-021-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, and James David Glunt, eds., Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xliv, 596 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2976-7.) Originally published in 1927.
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