Readings in the History of the Soil Conservation Service

Readings in the History of the Soil Conservation Service
Title Readings in the History of the Soil Conservation Service PDF eBook
Author Douglas Helms
Publisher
Pages 178
Release 1992
Genre Soil conservation
ISBN

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Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements

Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Title Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements PDF eBook
Author Devon Peña
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Pages 504
Release 2017-09-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1682260364

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"This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities. The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place well before the Oñate Entrada of 1598, to tomorrow's transborder travelers who will be negotiating entry into the United States. Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways from Chiapas to Alaska. Global food systems are also considered from a critical agroecological perspective, which takes into account the ways colonialism affects native biocultural diversity, ecosystem resilience, and equality across species and generations. Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements is a major contribution to the understanding of the ways that Mexican-origin peoples have resisted and transformed food systems through daily lived acts of producing and sharing food, knowledge, and seeds in both place-based and displaced communities. It will animate scholarship on global food studies for years to come."--Page [4] of cover.

Legacies of Dust

Legacies of Dust
Title Legacies of Dust PDF eBook
Author Douglas Sheflin
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 361
Release 2019-06-01
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1496215397

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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst ecological disaster in American history. When the rains stopped and the land dried up, farmers and agricultural laborers on the southeastern Colorado plains were forced to adapt to new realities. The severity of the drought coupled with the economic devastation of the Great Depression compelled farmers and government officials to combine their efforts to achieve one primary goal: keep farmers farming on the Colorado plains. In Legacies of Dust Douglas Sheflin offers an innovative and provocative look at how a natural disaster can dramatically influence every facet of human life. Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, Sheflin presents the disaster in a new light by evaluating its impact on both agricultural production and the people who fueled it, demonstrating how the Dust Bowl fractured Colorado's established system of agricultural labor. Federal support, combined with local initiative, instituted a broad conservation regime that facilitated production and helped thousands of farmers sustain themselves during the difficult 1930s and again during the drought of the 1950s. Drawing from western, environmental, transnational, and labor history, Sheflin investigates how the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and its complex consequences transformed the southeastern Colorado agricultural economy.

Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory

Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory
Title Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory PDF eBook
Author Robert E. Mitchell
Publisher McFarland
Pages 253
Release 2020-05-18
Genre History
ISBN 1476680671

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Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.

The American Planning Tradition

The American Planning Tradition
Title The American Planning Tradition PDF eBook
Author Robert Fishman
Publisher Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Pages 362
Release 2000-06-15
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780943875965

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Today with everything urban and public perpetually in crisis, we turn towards the figures who shaped our cities and left a legacy of public spaces. This work reevaluates those planners and their times in a series of essays.

When Government Helped

When Government Helped
Title When Government Helped PDF eBook
Author Sheila Collins
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 360
Release 2014
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199990697

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This book offers new perspectives on comparisons of the intersection of economic and environmental crises of these two periods.

FDR and the Environment

FDR and the Environment
Title FDR and the Environment PDF eBook
Author D. Woolner
Publisher Springer
Pages 271
Release 2015-12-17
Genre Science
ISBN 0230100678

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This book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word 'environmental' for 'conservation'. Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book will help correct the widely held view that the New Deal is virtually a blank space in the history of modern environmentalism. In fact, the New Deal carried forward and greatly extended the work of the Progressive Conservation Era, and in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.