Reading List
Atkins, Leah Rawls. 1994. High cottons: The Antebellum Alabama Plantation Mistress and the Cotton Culture. Agricultural History 68: 92-104.
Ayers, Edward L. 1992. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ayers, Edward L. and John C. Willis. 1991. The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Charlottesville and London: Univ. Press of Virginia.
Bailey, Ronald. 1994. The other side of slavery: Black labor, cotton, and textile industrialization in Great Britain and the United States. Agricultural History 68. 35-50.
Beeman, Randal. 1994. Chemivisions: The forgotten promises of the chemurgy movement. Agricultural History 68. 23-45.
Bradley, Karen J. Spring 1995. "Agrarian Ideology and Agricultural Policy: California Grangers and the Post-World War II Farm Policy Debate." Agricultural History. 69. 240-256.
Brim, Valerie. 1994. The impact of mechanized farming on black farm families in the rural south: A study of farm life in the Brooke Farm community. 1940-1970. Agricultural History 68. 160-184.
Carrier, Lyman. 1923. The beginnings of agriculture in America. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York. Pages 1-307.
Carstensen, Frederick V., Morton Rothstein, and Joseph A. Swanson. 1993. Outstanding in his field. The Henry A. Wallace Series. Iowa State University Press, Ames. Pages 1-158.
Cochrane, Willard W. 1979. The development of American agriculture. A historical analysis. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Pages. 1-435.
Contrat, Maisie and Richard Conrat. 1977. The American farm. A photographic history. California Historical Society, San Francisco/Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Pages 1-250.
Daniel, Pete. 1986. Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century. New York. Hill and Wang.
Daniel, Pete. 1994. Rhythm of the land. Agricultural History 68. 1-22.
Davidson, James West and Mark Hamilton Lytle. 1992. After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. 3rd ed. New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Auckland, Bogota, Caracas, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico, Milan, Montreal, New Delhi, Paris, San Juan, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Dean, Virgil W. 1995. Charles F. Brannan and the Rise and fall of Truman's 'Fair Deal' for farmers. Agricultural History 69. 28-53.
Dunn, Richard. 1973. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company.
Edwin, Ed. 1974. Feast or famine. Food, farming, and farm politics in America. Charterhouse Publishing Co., New York. Pages 1-347.
Effland, Anne B. W. Spring 1995. "New Riches from the Soil": The Chemurgic Ideas of Wheeler McMillen." Agricultural History 69. 288-297.
Ferleger, Lou. 1990. Agricultural and national development. Views on the nineteenth century. The Henry A. Wallace Series. Iowa State University Press, Ames. Pages 1-357.
Flamm, Michael W. 1994. The national farmers union and the evolution of agrarian liberalism. 1937-1946. Agricultural History 68. 54-80.
Fusonie, Alan E. Spring 1995. "John H. Davis: Architect of the Agribusiness Concept Revisited." Agricultural History 69. 326-348.
Genovese, Eugene D. 1989. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South. Middletoen, CT. Wesleyan University Press.
Goldfarb, Stephen J. 1994. An inquiry into the politics of the prohibition of the international slave trade. Agricultural History 68. 20-34.
Goldfield, David G. 1987. The Promised Land: The South Since 1945. Harlan Heights, IL. Harlan Davidson.
Goldwater, Barry. 1975. The Conscience of a Conservative. New York: Manor Books.
Grigg, David. 1982. The dynamics of agricultural change. The historical experience. St. Martin's Press, New York. Pages 1-260.
Grim, Valerie. Spring 1995. "The Politics of Inclusion: Black Farmers and the Quest for Agribusiness Participation, 1945-1990s." Agricultural History. 69. 257-271.
Heinicke, Craig. 1994. "African-American Migration and Urban Labor Skills: 1950 and 1960." Agricultural History: 185-198.
Heiser, Charles B., Jr. 1981. Seed to civilization. The story of food. W. H. Freeman and Company Press, San Francisco. Pages 1-254.
Hoveland, Michael. 1994. The cotton ginning's report program at the Bureau of the Census. Agricultural History 68. 146-156.
Hurt, R. Douglas. 1994. American agriculture. A brief history. Iowa State University Press, Ames. Pages 1-392.
Igler, David. Spring 1995. "Industrial Cowboys: Corporate Ranching in Late Nineteenth-Century California." Agricultural History. 69. 201-215.
Iverson, Peter. 1985. The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press.
Kipps, M. S. 1965. Early History of Virginia Field Crops. (See Dr. McKenna).
Leichtle, Kurt E. Spring 1995. "Power in the Heartland: Tractor Manufacturers in the Midwest." Agricultural History 69. 314-325.
Lewis, W. David. 1994. The emergence of Birmingham as a case study of continuity between the antebellum planter class and industrialization in the "New South." Agricultural History 68. 62-79.
Littlefield, Daniel C. 1981. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press.
Lemon, James T. 1976. The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.
Luebke, Fredrick C. 1980. Ethnicity on the Great Plains. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press.
McGowan, William P. Spring 1995. "Industrializing the Land of Lono: Sugar Plantation Managers and Workers in Hawaii, 1900-1920." Agricultural History 69. 177-200.
McMillen, Sally G. 1992. Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. Arlington Heights, IL. Harlan Davidson.
Miller, Simon. 1994. Wheat production in Europe and America: Mexican problems in comparative perspective. 1770-1910. Agricultural History 68. 16-34.
Miner, Craig. 1986. West of Wichita. Lawrence. University Press of Kansas.
Morgan, Edmund S. 1975. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company.
Nelson, Paula M. 1986. After the West Was Won. Homesteaders and Town-Builder in Western South Dakota, 1900-1917. Iowa City. University of Iowa Press.
Novak, James L., Greg Traxler, Max Runge and Charles Mitchell, Jr. Spring 1995. "The Effect of Mechanical Harvesting Technology on Southern Piedmont Cotton Production, 1896-1991." Agricultural History 69. 349-366.
Oliff, Martin T. 1994. Life and work in a progressive cotton community: Prattville, Alabama. 1846-1860. Agricultural History 68. 51-61.
Olmstead, Alan L. and Paul W. Rhode. 1994. The agricultural mechanization controversy of the interwar years. Agricultural History 68. 35-53.
Ostler, Jeffrey. 1995. The rhetoric of conspiracy and the formation of Kansas populism. Agricultural History 69. 1-27.
Owens, Jeffery Alan. 1994. Naming the plantation: An analytical survey from Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Agricultural History 68. 46-69.
Phillips, William H. 1994. Making a business of it: The evolution of southern cotton gin patenting. 1831-1890. Agricultural History 68. 80-91
Pollack, Norman. 1962. The Populist Response to Industrial America. Cambridge. Harvard University Press.
Rasmussen, Wayne D. 1960. Readings in the history of American agriculture. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. Pages 1-330.
Riley, Glenda. 1988. The Female Frontier. Lawrence. University of Kansas Press.
Rupnow, John and Carol W. Knox. 1975. The growing of America. 200 years of U. S. agriculture. Johnson Hill Press, Inc., Fort Atkinson, WI. Pages 1-142.
Schwartz, Amy D. Summer 1995. "Colonial New England Agriculture: Old Visions, New Directions.: Agricultural History 69. 454-481.
Scott, Carole E. 1994. Why the cotton textile industry did not develop in the South sooner. Agricultural History 68. 105-121.
Soitow, James. 1994. Cotton as religion, politics, law, economics and art. Agricultural History 68. 6-19.
Stoll, Steven. Spring 1995. "Insects and Institutions: University Science and the Fruit Business in California." Agricultural History 69. 216-239.
Strickland, Arvarh E. 1994. The strange affair of the boll weevil: The pest as liberator. Agricultural History 68. 157-168.
Surdam, David B. 1994. Cotton's potential as economic weapons: The antebellum and wartime markets for cotton textiles. Agricultural History 68. 122-145.
Turabian, Kate L. 1987. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Chicago. University of Chicago Press.
Weeks, Philip. 1990. Farewell My Nation. The American Indian and the United States, 1820-1890. Arlington Heights. IL. Harlan Davidson.
Wright, David S. Spring 1995. "Agricultural Editors Wheeier McMillen and Clifford V. Gregory and the Farm Chemurgia Movement." Agricultural History 69. 272-287.
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