July 2008 - Corn Production
(almost 20% allocated to ethanol)
(additional sources: Energy Information Administration, New York Times;
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/01/business/0701-nat-webWEATHER.gif)
(Agway Inc.), John B. Babcock (1999).
Farmboy: Hard Work and Good Times on a Farm That Helped Change Northeast
Agriculture. (Ithaca, NY: DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins
County, 240 p.). Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950; Agway
Inc.--History; Agricultural economists--United States--Biography;
Agriculture, Cooperative--Northeastern States--History.
(American Energy Farming Systems), Joseph A. Amato; foreword by Paul
Gruchow (1993).
The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the
Rural American Dream. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota
Press, 244 p.). American Energy Farming Systems; Horticultural products
industry--United States.
(Barbed Wire), Henry D. and Frances T. McCallum
(1965).
The Wire That Fenced the West. (Norman, OK: University of
Oklahoma Press, 285 p.). Barbed wire; Wire fencing--History.
(Barbed Wire), Reviel Netz (2004).
Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 267 p.). Barbed wire--Political aspects; Wire
fencing--History; Wire obstacles--History; Concentration camps--History.
(Beef), Louis F. Swift and Arthur Van Vlissingen (1927).
The Yankee of the Yards; The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift.
(New York, NY: A. W. Shaw company, 218 p.). Swift, Gustavus Franklin,
1839-1903; Meat industry and trade--United States.
(Beef), Robert Glass Cleland (1951).
The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880.
(San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 365 p. [2nd ed.]). Professor of
History (Occidental College). Cattle trade--California,
Southern--History--19th century; Ranch life--California,
Southern--History--19th century; California, Southern--History.
Transition from cattle frontier of Mexican rule and
culture to agricultural American community on eve of great industrial
and urban expansion; conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and
settlements, gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability
by more restrained, law-abiding society, impact of Anglo-Saxon customs
and institutions upon pastoral life of Spanish-Californians.
(Beef), Ramon Adams (1959).
The Rampaging Herd; A Bibliography of
Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry.
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 463 p.). Cattle--West
(U.S.)--Bibliography; Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--Bibliography; Frontier
and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Bibliography.
(Beef), Lewis Eldon Atherton (1961).
The Cattle Kings.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 308 p.). Cattle
trade--West (U.S.); Cattle breeders--West (U.S.)--Biography; Ranch
life--West (U.S.); West (U.S.)--Biography.
Richard Perren (1978).
The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840-1914. (Boston, MA: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 258 p.). Meat industry and trade--Great Britain--History.
(Beef), Margaret Walsh (1982).
The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. (Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky, 182 p.). Pork industry and
trade--Middle West--History; Meat industry and trade--Middle
West--History; Packing-houses--Middle West--History.
(Beef), Jimmy M. Skaggs (1986).
Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and
Meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983. (College Station, TX:
Texas A&M University Press, 263 p.). Meat industry and trade--United
States--History; Cattle trade--United States--History;
Stockyards--United States--History; Packing-houses--United
States--History.
(Beef), J'Nell L. Pate (1988).
Livestock Legacy: the Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987. (College
Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 332 p.). Tarrant County
College. Stockyards--Texas--Fort Worth--History; Cattle
trade--Texas--Fort Worth--History.
(Beef), Jeremy Rifkin (1992).
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of
the Cattle Culture. (New York, NY: Dutton, 353 p.). Beef cattle;
Cattle; Beef industry; Beef; Beef industry -- Environmental aspects;
Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- History; Beef -- Social aspects; Food
habits.
(Beef), Ian MacLachlan (2001).
Kill and Chill: Restructuring
Canada's Beef Commodity Chain. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto
Press, 378 p.). Author provides in-depth and detailed account of the
history and development of the production, distribution, processing and
marketing of beef in Canada from the beginning to the present period.
Cattle trade--Canada; Beef industry--Canada; Bovins--Commerce--Canada;
Boeuf (Viande)--Industrie--Canada.
(Beef), Max Foran (2003). Trails & Trials: Markets and Land Use in
the Alberta Cattle Industry, 1881-1948. (Calgary, AB: University of
Calgary Press, 317 p.). Cattle trade Alberta History; Beef industry
Alberta History; Land use, Rural Alberta History.
(Beef), Ken Midkiff (2004).
The Meat You Eat: How Corporate
Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply. (New York, NY: St.
Martin's Press, 222 p.). Clean Water Campaign Director, Sierra Club.
Meat industry and trade--Environmental aspects--United States; Meat
industry and trade--Health aspects--United States; Meat industry and
trade--Moral and ethical aspects--United States; Agricultural
industries--United States.
(Beef), J'Nell L. Pate (2005).
America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. (Fort Worth,
TX: TCU Press, 225 p.). Stockyards--United States--History;
Livestock--United States--Marketing.
(Beef), Richard Perren (2006).
Taste Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat
Industry since 1840. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 285 p.). Reader
in Economic History (University of Aberdeen).
Meat industry and trade--History; Meat industry and trade--Government
policy. Food distribution in industrializing
and post-industrial economies. interactions of producers, sellers
consumers of meat across the world.
(Beef), Wilson J. Warren (2007).
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and
Meatpacking. (Iowa City, IA: University of
Iowa, 317 p.). Associate Professor of History Western
(Michigan University). Packing-houses --Middle West;
Agricultural industries --Middle West; Agricultural
industries --Environmental aspects --Middle West;
Middle West --Economic conditions --21st century.
Meatpacking's effects on economics,
culture, environment of Midwest over past century
and a half - historical context, contemporary
concerns; urban, rural settings; meatpacking's
place within larger agro-industrial landscape;
evolution, future of industry.
(Beef), Ed. Robin Young Lee (2008).
Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. (Hanover,
NH: University Press of New England, 320 p.). Teaches Art and
Architectural History (Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas). Beef
-- Social aspects; Beef -- Slaughetrhouses.
Industrialization of animal slaughter, from hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers
to factory slaughterhouses, centralized municipal slaughterhouse
(political response to public’s increasing concern about social hygiene,
fear of meat-borne disease from "dirty" butchering practices); what is
lost, gained when meat becomes commodity? what do animal slaughter sites
reveal about our relationship to animals, nature?
(J. G. Boswell Company), Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman (2003).
The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American
Empire. (New York, NY: Public Affairs, 560 p.). Boswell, James
Griffin; Boswell family; Pioneers--California--San Joaquin
Valley--Biography; Cotton farmers--California--San Joaquin
Valley--Biography; Businessmen--California--San Joaquin
Valley--Biography; Cotton growing--California--San Joaquin
Valley--History--20th century; San Joaquin Valley
(Calif.)--History--20th century; Agricultural
industries--California--San Joaquin Valley--History--20th century; San
Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Economic conditions--20th century; San Joaquin
Valley (Calif.)--Biography. Boswell owned more agricultural acreage, controlled more river water
than any other land baron in the West, grew more cotton than anyone on
the planet
(Thomas Borthwick and Sons), Godfrey Harrison (1963).
Borthwicks; A Century in the Meat Trade, 1863-1963. (London, UK,
212 p.). Borthwick, Thomas, Sir, Bart., 1835-1912; Borthwick (Thomas) &
Sons, ltd.
(Thomas Borthwick and Sons), Peter Norman (1998). Meat in the
Sandwich: One Family's Involvement in a Major New Zealand Export
Industry. (Greytown, NZ: Bowstring Press, 129 p.). Norman, Edward G.
(Edward Gilbert), 1886-1963; Norman, Peter, 1924- ; Thomas Borthwick and
Sons; Chief executive officers--New Zealand; Slaughtering and
slaughter-houses--New Zealand--History; Meat industry and trade--New
Zealand--History.
(Brandt Consolidated), Kathleen Gilbert (2002). The History of
Brandt Consolidated: 1953-2003. (Heritage Publishers: Phoenix, AZ,
64 p.). Brandt Consolidated; Fertilizers; Crop protection. 1953 - Glen
Brandt and Evelyn Brandt Thomas established Brandt Fertilizer just west
of New Berlin, IL.
(California Associated Raisin Company), Victoria Saker Woeste (1998).
The Farmer’s Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in
Industrial America, 1865-1945. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 369 p.). California Associated Raisin Company;
Agriculture, Cooperative--Law and legislation--United States--History;
Raisin industry--Law and legislation--California--History.
(Calcot Ltd.), Catherine M. Merlo (1995).
Legacy of a Shared Vision: The History of Calcot. (Bakersfield,
CA: Calcot Limited, 192 p.). Calcot Ltd. --History; Cotton trade
--California --History; Cotton trade --Arizona --History.
February
1927
- Frank Green organized cotton co-op in Delano, CA; 151 growers met, unanimously approved terms for co-op called San Joaquin
Cotton Growers Association; 1953 - name changed to Calcot Ltd.; 1980s -
U.S.A.'s largest cotton shipper.
(Canada Packers Ltd.), Canada Packers (1943). The Story of Our
Products. (Kingston, ON: Jackson Press, 247 p.). Canada Packers;
Meat industry and trade -- Canada.
(Chicopee Manufacturing Company), John Michael Cudd; foreword by
Sidney Ratner (1974).
The Chicopee Manufacturing Company, 1823-1915.
(Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 325 p.). Chicopee Manufacturing
Company; Cotton trade--United States--Case studies.
(J. L. Coker), James A. Rogers with Larry E. Nelson (1994).
Mr.
D.R.: A Biography of David R. Coker. (Hartsville, SC: Coker College
Press, 361 p.). Coker, David Robert, 1870-1938; Businesspeople--South
Carolina--Biography; Agriculture--South Carolina--History--20th century;
South Carolina--Biography.
(Cotton), David L. Cohn (1956).
The Life and Times of King Cotton.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 286 p.). Cotton growing--United
States; Cotton manufacture--United States; Cotton trade--United States.
(Cotton), Melvin Thomas Copeland (1966).
The Cotton Manufacturing
Industry of the United States. (New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 415 p.
[orig. pub. 1912]). Cotton manufacture--United States; Cotton
trade--United States.
(Cotton), Compiled and ed. Stuart W. Bruchey (1967). Cotton and
the Growth of the American Economy, 1790-1860; Sources and Readings.
(New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 276 p.). Cotton trade--United
States; United States--Economic conditions.
(Cotton), Holland Thompson (1971).
From the Cotton Field to the
Cotton Mill; A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina.
(Freeport, Y: Books for Libraries, 284 p. [Reprint of 1906 ed.]). Cotton
trade--North Carolina; Cotton growing--North Carolina.
(Cotton), Susan Lee (1977). The Westward Movement of the Cotton
Economy, 1840-1860: Perceived Interests and Economic Realities. (New
York, NY: Arno Press, 269 p.). Cotton trade--United States--History;
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States; Southern States--Economic
conditions; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
(Cotton), Marilyn Anne Lavin (1978).
William Bostwick, Connecticut
Yankee in Antebellum Georgia. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 371 p.).
Bostwick, William, b. 1796; Merchants--Georgia--Biography; Cotton
trade--Georgia--History.
(Cotton), Gavin Wright (1978).
The Political Economy of the Cotton
South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century.
(New York, NY: Norton, 205 p.). Cotton trade--Southern States--History;
Southern States--Economic conditions.
(Cotton), Anthony Burton (1984).
The Rise & Fall of King Cotton.
(London, UK: A. Deutsch: BBC, 240 p.). Cotton textile industry--Great
Britain--History; Cotton trade--India--History; Cotton textile
industry--United States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History;
Textile workers--Great Britain--History; Textile workers--United
States--History; Slavery--United States.
(Cotton), John Hebron Moore (1988).
The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi,
1770-1860. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press,
323 p.). Cotton trade--Mississippi--History; Plantation
life--Mississippi--History; Slavery--Mississippi--History;
Mississippi--Economic conditions.
(Cotton), Jack Lichtenstein (1990).
Field to Fabric: The Story of
American Cotton Growers. (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press,
331 p.). American Cotton Growers (Firm)--History; Cotton trade--United
States--History.
(Cotton), Harold D. Woodman (2000).
King Cotton & His Retainers;
Financing & Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925.
(Washington, DC: Beard Books, 386 p. [orig. pub. 1968]). Cotton
trade--Southern States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History.
(Cotton), Martha L. Keber (2002).
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton:
Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island. (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 312 p.). DuBignon, Christophe Poulain, 1739-1825; Plantation
owners--Georgia--Jekyll Island--Biography; Merchants--Georgia--Jekyll
Island--Biography; Merchants--France--Biography;
Nobility--France--Biography; Seafaring life--History--18th century;
Commerce--History--18th century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Social life and
customs--18th century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Social conditions--18th
century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Biography.
(Cotton), Edited by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray (2008).
Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa.
(Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 304 p.). Associate Professor of
Geography (Macalester College); Associate Professor of Environmental
Studies (Santa Clara University). Cotton trade --Africa; Cotton
--Economic aspects --Africa; Poverty -- Africa.
Connections between Africa and global economy - cotton commodity chain
as one aspect of globalization process; cotton production in
postcolonial period from different disciplinary perspectives, in range
of national contexts; how changes at macroeconomic level play out on
ground in world's poorest region.
(Dairy), Sonia Jones (1987).
It All Began with Daisy. (New
York, NY: Dutton, 237 p.). Jones, Sonia; Peninsula Farm (N.S.);
Dairying--Nova Scotia--Lunenburg.
(Dairy), Walter E. Campbell (1996).
Across Fortune's Tracks: A
Biography of William Rand Kenan, Jr. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 417 p.). Kenan, William Rand, 1872-1965;
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Dairy farmers -- United
States -- Biography; Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
(Daniel Mills & Sons Limited), Marian Robertson (1995). Rising
Generations: Daniel Mills & Sons Limited, 1845-1995. (Cape Town, SA: D.M.S., 224 p.). Daniel Mills & Sons Limited--History; Yeast
industry--South Africa--History.
(Darigold Inc.), Archie Satterfield (1993).
The Darigold Story:
The History of a Dairy Cooperative in the Pacific Northwest.
(Seattle, WA: Darigold, 177 p.). Darigold, Inc.--History; Dairying,
Cooperative--Northwest, Pacific--History; Dairy products
industry--Northwest, Pacific--History.
(Driscoll Strawberry Associates), Manabi Hirasaki with Naomi Hirahara
(2003).
A Taste for Strawberries: The Independent Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi
Hirasaki. (Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum,
217 p.). Hirasaki, Manabi, 1923- ; Japanese-American
farmers--California--Gilroy--Biography;
Strawberries--California--Gilroy; Strawberry
industry--California--Gilroy. World's largest commercial strawberry
distributor. First non-European
American board member of world's largest commercial strawberry
distributor.
(Farmland Industries), Gilbert C. Fite (1978). Beyond the Fence
Rows: A History of Farmland Industries, Inc., 1929-1978. (Columbia,
MO: University of Missouri Press, 404 p.). Farmland Industries.
(Fisheries), Gordon B. Dodds (1963). The Salmon King of Oregon;
R.D. Hume and The Pacific Fisheries. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 257 p.). Hume, Robert Deniston, 1845-1908; Salmon
fisheries--Oregon.
(Fisheries), Harold A. Innis (1978).
The Cod Fisheries: The
History of an International Economy. (Buffalo, NY: University of
Toronto Press, 522 p. [rev. ed.]). Cod fisheries--History; Cod
fisheries--Economic aspects--History; Fish trade--History; International
economic relations.
(Fisheries), James M. Acheson (1988).
The Lobster Gangs of Maine.
(Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 181 p.). Lobster
fishers--Maine; Lobster fisheries--Maine.
(Francklyn Land & Cattle Company), Lester, F. Sheffy (1963).
The
Francklyn Land & Cattle Company: A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957.
(Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 402 p.). Francklyn Land & Cattle
Company; White Deer Corporation; Cattle trade -- Texas; Land settlement
-- Texas.
(Garvey Inc.), Olive White Garvey, with Virgil Quinlisk (1970).
The Obstacle Race; The Story of Ray Hugh Garvey. (San Antonio, TX:
Naylor Co., 233 p.). Garvey, Ray Hugh, 1893-1959.
(Garvey Inc.), Craig Miner (1992). Garvey, Inc.: Expectations to
Equity, 1959-1973. (Wichita, KS: M. Page, 160 p.). Garvey, Ray Hugh;
Garvey, Inc.; Capitalists and financiers--Kansas--Biography; Grain
trade--Kansas--History.
(Antony Gibbs & Sons), W.M. Mathew (1981).
The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly. (London, UK:
Royal Historical Society, 281 p.). Antony Gibbs & Sons -- History --
19th century; Guano industry -- Peru -- History -- 19th century; Guano
industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Classic study of
an export economy.
(Gold Kist), Harold H. Martin (1982).
A Good Man--A Great Dream: D.W. Brooks of Gold Kist. (Atlanta, GA: Gold Kist Inc., 196 p.).
Brooks, David William, 1901- ; Gold Kist Inc.--History; Cotton
trade--United States--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
(Gold Kist), David W. Brooks (1993).
D.W. Brooks, Gold Kist, and
Seven U.S. Presidents: An Autobiography. (Atlanta, GA: D.W. Brooks
Family, 252 p.). Brooks, David William, 1901- ; Gold Kist Inc.--History;
Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Agricultural
industries--United States--History--20th century.
(Grove Farm Company), Bob Krauss (1966).
Grove Farm Plantation; The Biography of a Hawaiian Sugar Plantation.
(Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 400 p.). Wilcox, George Norton; Grove
Farm Company; Hawaii -- History.
(R. & W. Hellaby Ltd.), Dick Scott (1973). Stock in Trade:
Hellaby's First Hundred Years, 1873-1973. (Auckland, NZ: Southern
Cross Books, 176 p.). Hellaby (R. & W.) Ltd.; Meat industry and
trade--New Zealand--History.
(W. D. Hoard and Sons Co.), Loren H. Osman (1985).
W.D. Hoard: A Man for His Time. (Fort Atkinson, WI: W.D. Hoard,
451 p.). Hoard, William Dempster, 1836-1918.; Dairy
farmers--Wisconsin--Biography; Dairying--Wisconsin--History;
Governors--Wisconsin--Biography.
(International Basic Economy Corporation), Kenneth D. Durr (2006).
A Company with a Mission: Rodman Rockefeller and the International Basic
Economy Corporation, 1947-1985. (Rockville, MD: Montrose Press,
337 p.). Director of the History Division (History Associates
Incorporated). Rockefeller, Rodman, 1932-2000 (CEO - from 1972 to 1980);
International Basic Economy Corporation--History; Social responsibility
of business--United States--History.
Founded 1947
on premise a private American business corporation that focused on
developing "basic economies" of developing countries could turn a
profit, encourage others (foreigners, nationals) to establish
competitive businesses.
(Kayman Sankar and Company Limited), David Chanderbali (1995).
Kayman Sankar: The Ultimate Rice Magnate. (Georgetown, Guyana: K.
Sankar and Co., 205 p.). Sankar, Kayman, 1926- ; Kayman Sankar and
Company Limited--History; Rice trade--Guyana; Rice
farmers--Guyana--Biography; Businesspeople--Guyana--Biography.
(King Ranch), John Cypher (1995).
Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch: A Worldwide Sea of Grass. (Austin,
TX: University of Texas Press, 239 p.). Kleberg, Robert Justus,
1896-1974; King Ranch (Tex.)--History; King Ranch, Inc.--History;
Ranchers--Texas--Biography.
(King Ranch), Mona D. Sizer (1999).
The King Ranch Story: Truth
and Myth: A History of the Oldest and Greatest Ranch in Texas.
(Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 234 p.). King Ranch
(Tex.)--History; King Ranch (Tex.)--Biography.
(King Ranch), Don Graham (2003).
Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga
of an American Ranching Empire. (New York, NY: Wiley, 289 p.). Ranch
life--Texas; King Ranch (Tex.)--History; King Ranch (Tex.)--Biography.
(Matador Land and Cattle Company), William Martin Pearce (1964).
The Matador Land and Cattle Company. (Norman, OK: University of
Oklahoma Press, 244 p.). Cattle trade -- West (U.S.); Matador Land and
Cattle Company, ltd.
(Thomas McDonogh & Sons), Peadar O'Dowd (2002).
In from the West: The McDonogh Dynasty. (Galway, IR: Thomas
McDonogh & Sons, 156 p.). Thomas McDonogh & Sons--History; Business
enterprises--Ireland--Galway--History;
Businessmen--Ireland--Galway--Biography; Galway
(Ireland)--Commerce--History.
(Miller & Lux), M. Catherine Miller (1993).
Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West.
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 255 p.). Miller & Lux; Water
rights --California --History; California --History --1850-1950.
Legal
biography; 1870s -1930s - Miller & Lux looked to
law to mediate its place amid change (corporate counsel, new concept for late-19th-century America,
creative development and use of new legal doctrines); relationship between law, economic change, distribution of
wealth and power; law in environment undergoing rapid development.
(Miller & Lux), David Igler (2001).
Industrial Cowboys: Miller &
Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920. (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 267 p.). Historian (University of
Utah). Miller & Lux--History; Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--History; Animal
industry--West (U.S.)--History; Packing-houses--West (U.S.)--History;
Land use--West (U.S.)--History; Water rights--West (U.S.)--History; Big
business--West (U.S.)--History; Industrialization--West (U.S.)--History.
(Miller & Lux), Edited by Charles Sawyer. (2003).
One Man Show:
Henry Miller in the San Joaquin. (Los Banos, CA: Ralph Milliken
Museum Society: Loose Change Publications, 328 p.). Miller, Henry,
1827-1916; Miller & Lux--History; Pioneers--California--San Joaquin
Valley--Biography; Ranchers--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography;
Businessmen--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Cattle
trade--California--San Joaquin Valley--History; Water
rights--California--San Joaquin Valley--History; San Joaquin Valley
(Calif.)--History; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--History--Sources; San
Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Biography.
(Newhall Land & Farming), Ruth Waldo Newhall (1958).
The Newhall
Ranch; The Story of the Newhall Land & Farming Company. (San Marino,
CA: Huntington Library, 120 p.). Newell family; Newhall Land and Farming
Company.
(Newhall Land & Farming), Andrew Rolle (1991).
Henry Mayo Newhall and His Times: A California Legacy. (San
Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 168 p.). Newhall, Henry Mayo, 1825-1882;
Pioneers--California--Biography; Businesspeople--California--Biography;
Ranchers--California--Biography; California--Biography.
(Pacific Meat Company), Gareth Sirotnik (1988).
Running Tough: The
Story of Vancouver's Jack Diamond. (Vancouver, BC: Diamond Family,
245 p.). Diamond, Jack, 1909- ; Jews--British
Columbia--Vancouver--Biography; Businesspeople--British
Columbia--Vancouver--Biography; Vancouver (B.C.)--Biography.
(Penobscot Poultry), Cedric N. Chatterley and Alicia J. Rouverol with
Stephen A. Cole and a foreword by Michael Frisch (2000).
"I Was
Content and Not Content": The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of
Penobscot Poultry. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University
Press, 134 p.). Lord, Linda, 1948-; Penobscot Poultry--History; Poultry
industry--Belfast--Maine; Belfast (Me.)--Economic conditions.
(Peterson Industries), Huey Crisp (1989). Lloyd Peterson and
Peterson Industries: An American Story. (Little Rock, AR: August
House, 179 p.). Peterson, Lloyd; Peterson Industries--History; Poultry
industry--United States--History; Industrialists--United
States--Biography.
(Poultry), Oscar A. Hanke et al (1974). American Poultry History,
1823-1973: An Anthology Overview of 150 Years: People-Places-Progress.
(Lafayette, IN: American Poultry Historical Society, 775 p.).
Poultry--United States--History; Poultry industry--United
States--History; Poultry--Canada--History; Poultry
industry--Canada--History.
(Simplot), Robert G. Waite; in collaboration with Thomas Hale and
Paul Zelus (1995). I Just Went to Work: Jack Simplot and His Business
Career. (Boise, ID: March Hare Press, 118 p.). Simplot, Jack; Potato
industry--Idaho--History; Businesspeople--Idaho--Biography.
(Simplot), Louie Attebery (2000).
J.R. Simplot: A Billion the Hard
Way. (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 251 p.). Simplot, J. R. (John
Richard), 1909- ; J.R. Simplot Company--History; Businessmen--United
States--Biography; Food industry and trade--United States--History.
(Swan Land and Cattle Company), Harmon Ross Mothershead (1971).
The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd. (Norman, OK: University
of Oklahoma Press, 203 p.). Swan Land and Cattle Company.
(Swan Land and Cattle Company), Lawrence M. Woods (2006).
Alex Swan and the Swan Companies. (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark
Co., 293 p.). Swan, Alexander Hamilton, 1831-1905; Swan Land and Cattle
Company--History; Cattle trade--Wyoming--History--19th century;
Ranchers--Wyoming--Biography; Businessmen--West (U.S.)--Biography.
(Tattersalls - founded 1766 by Richard Tattersall), Peter Willett
(1987).
The Story of Tattersalls. (London, UK: S. Paul, 213 p.).
Tattersalls (Firm)--History; Horse trading--Great Britain--History;
Horse breeders--Great Britain--History. World's first bloodstock auction
house.
(Thatcher Brothers), Paul E. Patterson, Joy Poole (2000).
Great
Plains Cattle Empire: Thatcher Brothers and Associates (1875-1945).
(Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 211 p.). Cattle trade--Great
Plains--History; Great Plains--History.
(Tiger Oats Limited), Rudy Frankel, assisted by Marian Robertson
(1988).
Tiger Tapestry. (Cape Town, SA: C. Struik Publishers, 432
p.). Tiger Oats Limited--History; Produce trade--South Africa--History;
Food industry and trade--South Africa--History.
(Tillamook County Creamery Association), Archie Satterfield (2000).
The Tillamook Way: A History of the Tillamook County Creamery
Association, a Farmer-Owned Cooperative. (Tillamook, OR: Tillamook
County Creamery Association, 151 p.). Tillamook County Creamery
Association--History; Dairy farming--Oregon--Tillamook County--History;
Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon--Tillamook County; Cheese
industry--Oregon--Tillamook County--History; Tillamook County
(Or.)--History.
(United Plantations Berhad), Susan M. Martin (2003).
The UP Saga. (Copenhagen, Denmark: NIAS Press, 356 p.). United
Plantations (Firm)--History; Plantations--Malaysia--History; Palm oil
industry--Malaysia--History. rovides a glowing example of a
partnership between Europeans and Asians which has benefited both sides.
(Weil Brothers Cotton), George S. Bush (1982).
An American
Harvest: The Story of Weil Brothers Cotton. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 495 p.). Weil Brothers Cotton--History; Cotton
trade--United States--History.
(Wheat), H. Craig Miner (1998).
Harvesting the High Plains: John
Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920-1950. (Lawrence, KS:
University of Kansas Press, 225 p.). Kriss, John, 1905-1996;
Wheat--Kansas--History--20th century; Agriculture--Kansas--History--20th
century; Agriculture--Colorado--History--20th century;
Farmers--Kansas--Biography.
(Williams and Kettle Ltd. - established 1880), Leonard Ernest
Anderson (1974). Throughout the East Coast, The Story of Williams and
Kettle Ltd. (Hastings, NZ: Pictorial Publications, 176 p.). Williams
and Kettle Ltd.--History. Prominent stock and station company operating
at the forefront of New Zealand’s rural servicing industry.
(Wright, Stephenson & Co.), J. C. Irving (1961). A Century's
Challenge: Wright, Stephenson & Co., Limited, 1861-1961.
(Wellington, NZ: Wright, Stephenson & Co., 293 p.). Wright, Stephenson &
Co.; Commission merchants--New Zealand.
(XIT ranch), Lewis Nordyke (1949).
Cattle Empire: The Fabulous
Story of the 3,000,000 Acre XIT. (New York, NY: Morrow, 273 p.).
Ranch life; XIT Ranch (Tex.).
(XIT Ranch), J. Evetts Haley (1967).
The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado.
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 258 p. (orig. pub. 1953)). Frontier
and pioneer life--Texas; Ranch life--Texas; XIT Ranch, Tex.;
Texas--History.
Edmund Abaka (2005).
’Kola Is God’s Gift’: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the
Kola Industry in Asante & the Gold Coast c. 1820-1950. (Oxford,
UK: James Currey, 173 p.). Kola nut industry--Ghana--History.
Legal and
popular stimulant among West African Muslims.
Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman (1987).
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture
in the Antebellum North. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 322
p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th
century; United States--Rural conditions.
Ed. Julie A. Avery (2000).
Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration.
(Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 240 p.). Assistant
Curator of History; Coordinator of Information & Museum Services
Division; and Coordinator of Rural Arts & Culture Program at the
Michigan State University Museum. Agribusiness; agricultural
exhibitions; agricultural fairs. 1810 - Berkshire
Agricultural Society (Massachusetts) sponsored exhibition considered
first of new fairs in America; competitive displays, informal learning
opportunities, demonstrations, lectures, parades, celebrations; 13
historical, contemporary articles.
Harold Barger and Hans H. Landsberg (1942).
American Agriculture,
1899-1939; A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity. (New
York, NY: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 440 p.).
Agriculture -- United States; Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Graeme Barker (2006).
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become
Farmers? (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 550 p.).
Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Agriculture,
Prehistoric; Agriculture--Origin; Plants, Cultivated--Origin; Plant
remains (Archaeology). Development of agricultural systems
as transformations in social norms and ideologies as in ways of
obtaining food.
Richard Benson (2005).
The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside.
(London, UK: Hamish Hamilton, 240 p.). Editor (The Face magazine).
Farms; Farming business; agribusiness.
Ernest Ludlow Bogart (1923).
Economic History of American
Agriculture. (New York, NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 173 p.).
Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agriculture -- United States. Chapters
from the author's Economic history of the United States.
Solon J. Buck (1963).
The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its
Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880.
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 384 p. [orig. pub. 1913]).
National Grange; Agriculture--United States; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--United States; Railroads and state--United States;
Cooperation--United States.
Jacques Cauvin; translated by Trevor Watkins (2000).
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 259 p.). Neolithic period--Middle East;
Religion, Prehistoric--Middle East; Agriculture--Origin; Middle
East--Antiquities. Cultural, social, economic
changes which transformed mobile hunter-gatherers into
first village societies, farmers in world.
Marquis W. Childs; Introd. by George G. Aiken (1974).
The Farmer
Takes a Hand; The Electric Power Revolution in Rural America. (New
York, NY: Da Capo Press, 256 p. [orig. pub. 1952]). Rural
electrification--United States; Electricity in agriculture; New Deal,
1933-1939.
ed. E. J. T. Collins (2001).
The Agrarian History of England and
Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 2236 p.). Completes the eight-volume Agrarian History of England
and Wales - useful reference for the whole history of English
agriculture from the Neolithic period to 1939. See Finberg below.
David B. Danbom (1979).
The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and
the Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930. (Ames, IA: Iowa
State University Press, 195 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States--History; Rural development--United States--History; United
States--Rural conditions.
Clarence H. Danhof (1969).
Change in Agriculture; The Northern
United States, 1820-1870. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
322 p.). Agricultural innovations--United States--History;
Agriculture--United States--History.
Leroy Judson Daniels, as told to Helen S. Herrick (1987).
Tales of
an Old Horsetrader: The First Hundred Years. (Iowa City, IA:
University of Iowa Press, 235 p.). Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882- ;
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Horse industry -- United
States -- History.
Margaret Derry (2006).
Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture,
1800-1920. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 302 p.).
Adjunct Professor in the Department of History (University of Guelph).
Horse breeders----History; Horses -- market; Animal industry----History.
Horse production in U. S., Britain, Canada at
height of the species’ usefulness, the late nineteenth and early
twentieth-century.
Edward Jerome Dies (1976).
Titans of the Soil: Great Builders of
Agriculture. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 213 p. [orig. pub.
1949]). Agriculturists--United States--Biography.
Hiram M. Drache (1996).
History of U.S. Agriculture and Its
Relevance to Today. (Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, 494 p.).
Agriculture--United States--History.
--- (2001).
Creating Abundance: Visionary Entrepreneurs of
Agriculture. (Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, 388 p.).
Agricultural industries--United States--Biography; Food industry and
trade--United States--Biography; Agriculturists--United
States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
Kathryn Marie Dudley (2000).
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in
America's Heartland. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 195
p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West; Family farms--Middle
West; =Rural families--Middle West; Farmers--Middle West; Middle
West--Rural conditions.
Giovanni Federico (2005).
Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 388 p.). Professor of
Economic History at the European University Institute.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--19th century;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--20th century.
Economic history, sociology, and even political
science - comprehensive history of world agriculture.
General ed. H. P. R. Finberg (1967). The Agrarian History of
England and Wales. (London, UK: Cambridge University Press, 8
vols.). Land use--England--History; Land use--Wales--History;
Agriculture--England--History; Agriculture--Wales--History.
See Thirsk below.
Deborah Fitzgerald (1990).
The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn
in Illinois, 1890-1940. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 247
p.). Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and
Society (MIT). Hybrid corn--Illinois--History;
Corn--Illinois--Breeding--History.
--- (2003).
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American
Agriculture. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 242 p.).
Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society
(MIT). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th
century; Family farms--United States--History--20th century;
Agricultural credit--United States--History--20th century; Farms, Size
of--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Farm
mechanization--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century;
Agriculture--Capital investments--United States--History--20th century;
Farm mortgages--United States--History--20th century; Business
cycles--United States--History--20th century; Farm foreclosures--United
States--History--20th century.
Bruce L. Gardner (2002).
American Agriculture in the Twentieth
Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 388 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States--History--20th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States--Statistics; Agriculture--United States--Costs--Statistics;
Family farms--United States--Statistics; Farm income--United
States--Statistics; Agricultural credit; Agricultural productivity;
Agricultural subsidies--United States; Agriculture and state--United
States; Agricultural laws and legislation--United States.
David Goodman and Michael Redclift (1982).
From Peasant to Proletarian: Capitalist Development and Agrarian
Transitions. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 244 p.).
Agriculture--Economic aspects; Capital; Economic development; Marxian
economics; Peasantry; Proletariat.
Norman S.B. Gras (1940).
A History of Agriculture in Europe and
America. (New York, NY: F.S. Crofts & Co., 496 p. [2nd ed.]).
Professor of Business History (Harvard Business School).
Agriculture--Europe--History; Agriculture--United States--History.
Lewis Cecil Gray, assisted by Esther Katherine Thompson, with an
introductory note by Henry Charles Taylor (1933). History of
Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. (Washington, DC:
The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2 Vols.). Agriculture--Southern
States; Agriculture--Southern States--Bibliography.
Victor Davis Hanson (1996).
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the
Agrarian Idea. (New York, NY: Free Press, 289 p.). Professor of
Greek (Call State), 5th Generation (Thompson seedless) Grape Farmer.
Family farms--United States; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States.
Margaret Swett Henson and Deolece Parmelee (1993).
The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian
Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Texas. (Austin, TX: Texas
State Historical Association, 337 p.). Cartwright family;
Businessmen--Texas--San Augustine--Biography; San Augustine
(Tex.)--Economic conditions; San Augustine (Tex.)--History--19th
century.
Robert West Howard (1945).
Two Billion Acre Farm, An Informal
History of American Agriculture. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 209
p.). Agriculture--United States--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--United States.
R. Douglas Hurt (2002).
Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century.
(Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 192 p.). Agriculture--United
States--History--20th century; Agriculture and state--United
States--History--20th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States--History--20th century.
Lawrence J. Jelinek (1979).
Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture. (San
Francisco, CA: Boyd & Fraser, 113 p.). Agriculture --California
--History.
E. L. Jones (1974).
Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Wiley,
233 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History;
Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic
conditions.
Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt (1995).
Amish Enterprise: From
Plows to Profits. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
300 p.). Economics--Religious aspects--Amish--History of doctrines--20th
century; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster Co.--History--20th century;
Lancaster County (Pa.)--Church history--20th century; Lancaster County
(Pa.)--Economic conditions.
Allan Kulikoff (1992).
The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 341 p.).
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History;
Capitalism--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865; United States--Rural conditions.
--- (2000).
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 484 p.).
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Europe--History; Farm tenancy--United
States--History; Farm tenancy--Great Britain--History; Farm
tenancy--Europe--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865;
Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century; Great
Britain--Economic conditions--17th century; Europe--Economic
conditions--18th century; Europe--Economic conditions--17th century;
United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
Angela Lakwete (2003).
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 248 p.). Cotton gins and
ginning--United States--History--19th century; Inventions--United
States--History--19th century.
Eds. Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh (2008).
Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 304 p.). Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of
Development Sociology (Cornell University); Senior Scientist with the
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (University of Wisconsin–
Madison); Associate Professor of Sociology (Clarkson University). Family
farms --United States; Farm produce --United States --Marketing.
Midsize U. S. family-operated farms - too big to use direct
marketing techniques of small farms, too small to take advantage of
corporate marketing, distribution systems = rural America with weakened
municipal tax bases, job loss, population flight; strategies to revive "agriculture of the middle", food system
for midsize farms, ranches.
Russell R. Menard (2006).
Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early
Barbados. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press,
181 p.). Professor of History (University of Minnesota). Agriculture--Economic aspects--Barbados--History--17th century;
Sugar trade--Barbados--History--17th century;
Slavery--Barbados--History--17th century;
Plantations--Barbados--History--17th century. Barbados
was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and slave society
before sugar emerged as the dominant crop.
Ian Mulgrew (2005).
Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry. (Toronto, ON:
Random House Canada, 287 p.). Legal Affairs Columnist (Vancouver Sun).
Marijuana; Marijuana industry -- Canada;
Forbes magazine (November 2003) - marijuana is "Canada’s most valuable
agricultural product — bigger than wheat, cattle or timber".
Mary Neth (1995).
Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community and
the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 347 p.). Middle West --
Rural conditions; Rural families -- Middle West; Farmers' spouses --
Middle West; Agriculture and state -- Middle West.
Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott (2005).
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern
Agriculture. (Bloomington: IN: Indiana University Press, 356
p.). Author; Emeritus Professor of History (Mississippi State
University). Agriculture--Middle West--History; Farm life--Middle
West--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West--History. Great
transformation in American life.
David Ormrod (1985).
English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism,
1700-1760. (Hull, UK: Hull University Press, 145 p.). Lecturer
in Economic and Social History (University of Kent at Canterbury). Grain
trade--England--History--18th century; Grain trade--Wales--History--18th
century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History--18th century;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Wales--History--18th century;
Capitalism--England--History--18th century;
Capitalism--Wales--History--18th century.
Donald H. Pflueger (1976).
Charles C. Chapman: The Career of a Creative Californian, 1853-1944.
(Los Angeles, CA: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 241 p.). Chapman, Charles
C.; orange growing; orange industry.
Pioneered the growing and selling
of Valencia oranges to the U.S. grocery trade.
Donald J. Pisani (1984).
From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in
California and the West, 1850-1931. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 521 p.). Irrigation--Economic
aspects--California--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--California--History.
Louis W. Potts & Ann M. Sligar (2004).
Watkins Mill: The Factory on the Farm. (Kirksville, MO: Truman
State University Press, 216 p.). Watkins, Waltus L., 1806-1884; Watkins
family; Businessmen--Missouri--Lawson--Biography;
Farmers--Missouri--Lawson--Biography; Wool
industry--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century; Woolen and worsted
manufacture--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century;
Agriculture--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century; Watkins Woolen
Mill State Historic Site (Lawson, Mo.); Lawson (Mo.)--Biography; Lawson
(Mo.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Paul Raeburn, with a new preface by the author (1996).
The Last
Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American
Agriculture. (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 269 p.).
Senior Writer for Business Week magazine. Plant breeding--United States;
Crops--United States--Germplasm resources; Agricultural
innovations--United States; Agriculture--United States.
Richard Rhodes (1998).
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American
Farmer. (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 336 p.).
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author. Farm life--Missouri; Family
farms--Missouri; Agriculture--Missouri.
Anna Rochester (1975).
Why Farmers Are Poor. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 317 p. [orig. pub. 1940]). Agriculture--United States;
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.
Mary B. Rose (2000).
Firms, Networks, and Business Values: The
British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 352 p.). Cotton trade--Great
Britain--History; Cotton trade--United States--History. Series:
Cambridge studies in modern economic history.
Thomas C. Smith (1959).
The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 250 p.). Land tenure--Japan; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--Japan; Japan--Rural conditions.
Steven Stoll (1998).
The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in
California. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 273
p.). Assistant Professor of History (Yale University). Fruit trade --
California; Fruit -- California -- Marketing; Horticulture --
California; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California.
How a class of capitalist farmers made California
nation's leading producer of fruit, created first industrial countryside
in America; California from 1880 to 1930 - origins, evolution,
implications of fruit industry; window through which to view entire
history of California.
Charles G. Teague (1944).
Fifty Years a Rancher: The Recollections of Half a Century Devoted to
the Citrus and Walnut Industries of California. (Los Angeles,
CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 199 p.). Citrus fruits; Walnut; Agriculture,
Cooperative--California.
Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990).
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England
and Wales, 1500-1750: Volume 1 (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 5 vols.). Agriculture--Economic
aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural
conditions.
Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990).
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750:
Volume 2 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 5 vols.).
Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural
conditions.
Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990).
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750:
Volume 3 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 5 vols.).
Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural
conditions.
David Vaught (2007).
After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 328 p.). Associate
Professor of History (Texas A & M University). Agriculture--Economic
aspects--California--Sacramento Valley--History; Sacramento Valley
(Calif.)--History. Hard-luck
miners-turned-farmers in Putah Creek (became Davis, CA); endured disputes, confusion over land policy, struggled with vagaries of local, national, world markets.
Simon P. Ville (2000).
The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent
Industry in Australia and New Zealand. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press. School of Economics and Information Systems
(University of Wollongong, Australia), President of the Economic History
Society of Australia and New Zealand. Animal
industry--Australia--History; Animal industry--New Zealand--History;
Wool industry--Australia--History; Wool industry--New Zealand--History;
Stockyards--Economic aspects--Australia--History; Stockyards--Economic
aspects--New Zealand--History.
Keith J. Volanto (2005).
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. (College Station, TX: Texas A &
M University Press, 194 p.). Professor of History (Collin County
Community College). United States. Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933;
Cotton growing--Government policy--Texas--History; Cotton
trade--Government policy--Texas--History; New Deal, 1933-1939--Texas.
New Deal cotton policy among Texas cotton farmers
during Great Depression; effects of the agricultural policies on
landlords, tenants, sharecroppers, ginners, shippers.
Richard A. Walker (2004).
The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California.
(New York, NY: New Press, 382 p.). Professor and Past Chair of Geography
(University of California, Berkeley). Agricultural
industries--California--History; Agriculture--Economic
aspects--California; Agricultural industries--Environmental
aspects--California; Agricultural industries--Social
aspects--California; Agricultural laborers--California--History.
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