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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Agricultural History"”.
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Exploring indigenous entanglements in extension, land, and agriculture: an Oklahoma case study
There is an extensive and complex history of agricultural and educational systems within the United States. Indigenous peoples maintained highly developed agricultural systems prior to colonization. After colonization, Indigenous and European systems converged in a battle of power that lasted for …
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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
"The Soviet Farm Complex" is a history of food, farming and the environment in the postwar Soviet Union. It tells the story of how different technical and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside in the generation after World War II. Beyond the leadership of the Soviet …
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Broken Ground: Plowing and America's Cultural Landscape in the 1930s
… relationship with the land. Environmental history, agricultural history, and the cultural geography of the plains are used in the analysis of these images to suggest the pervasiveness of the plow as a cultural symbol of man's relationship to the earth. My investigation begins with a chapter …
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Modifying Succession: A History of Vegetation Alliances on Swanton Pacific Ranch
… this stability has persisted despite long-term agricultural activities. This thesis contributes to the historiography of Swanton Pacific Ranch by providing a preliminary exploration of the botanic resources and the attendant anthropogenic agricultural activities on the land that may have …
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An environmental history of the Navan area of Co. Armagh
… were used in a study of the environmental history of the Navan area, Co. Armagh the site of the ancient 'capital' of Ulster. A tranect of five cores a analyzed from the edge of Loughnashade for pollen and loss-on-ignition . Submerged Pinus stumps from a number of lakes were collected and …
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Make a living: agriculture, industry and commerce in Eastern Hebei, 1870-1937
<p>The existing scholarship on Chinese agricultural history and peasant economy always portrayed Chinese peasants as cultivators and equated agricultural commercialization as cash crop growing. Based on the field surveys made by the Chinese and Japanese investigators in the 1930s, this dissertation …
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History of the Virginia FFA Association
… on the predecessors of the FFA by outlining the history and purposes of agricultural organizations formed since the late 1700s. The past two centuries of American agricultural history is rich with efforts to educate and improve agricultural practices through organized groups of farmers and other …
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… of the nation's farmland eroded or exhausted. Agricultural writers enjoined farmers to improve the soil on their farms. Given the primacy these early conservationists assigned to practices of restoring and sustaining the soil as the basis for sustainable agriculture, this study considers the …
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The Auditing and Management of the Clare Estate under Elizabeth de Burgh, 1317-60
This thesis explains how medieval estates managed the local officials they employed to run their manor farms. These estates employed auditors and gave them the power to penalise local farm managers for overspending and missing productivity targets. The key finding is the sheer number of times these …
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The rooted state: Plants and power in the making of modern China’s Xikang Province
This dissertation takes the relationship between agricultural plants and power as its primary lens on the history of Chinese state-building in the Kham region of eastern Tibet during the early twentieth century. Farming was central to the way nationalist discourse constructed the imagined community …
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Incentivizing Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia: Empirical Essays on the Role of Social Norms and Information Provision
… one of the most transformative events in modern agricultural history. It was characterized by the widespread adoption of high-yield crop varieties, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and advanced irrigation systems. By significantly increasing agricultural productivity, the GR responded to …
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"Die Landplage des Raupenfraßes" : Wahrnehmung, Schaden und Bekämpfung von Insekten in der Forst- und Agrarwirtschaft des preußischen Brandenburgs (1700-1850)
Menschliche Gesellschaften konkurrieren seit den Anfängen von Ackerbau und Viehzucht mit anderen Organismen um die dort produzierten Ressourcen. Ertragseinbußen in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie Verluste an Nutztieren und Jagdwild durch regelmäßig auftretende Schädlingskalamitäten und …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… populated region of lowland swamps, to an agricultural ""Promised Land"" that included vast fields of cotton farmed by sharecroppers. It explores the ways in which African Americans acted as central agents in this transformation through their labor in the forests and fields, their planning …