Phillips, Sarah T. (Author)
Potts, Dale (Author)
Petty, Adrienne (Author)
Schultz, Mark (Author)
Stalcup, Sam (Author)
Effland, Anne B. W. (Author)
This group of essays recognizes the sesquicentennial of the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA was created in 1862, part of a body of legislation that the Union was able to enact once free from the constraints of the southern states. The legislation---the Morrill Land Grant Act, establishing federally supported higher education; the Homestead Act, allowing citizens to claim federal land in the American West; and the Pacific Railway Act, allotting federal land to private companies to capitalize railroad construction---substantially extended the reach of the federal government. Arguably, of all the 1862 legislation, the creation of the USDA has had the greatest impact on the lives of American citizens and on people around the world. With a wide mandate ranging from food stamps to foreign diplomacy, from tourism to grain surpluses, the USDA has both mirrored and influenced the good and bad of American culture. These five idiosyncratic essays address some of the myriad aspects of the USDA, reflecting on its history, writ large; its management of the nation's forests; its race relations; its efforts to conserve America's privately held lands; and its sometimes contradictory global initiatives. Together they comprise a varied set of lenses on this hugely influential bureaucracy.
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Kaplan, Rebecca;
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Hamilton, Shane;
(2014)
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Schleifer, David;
(2010)
Reforming Food: How Trans Fats Entered and Exited the American Food System
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Louis A. Ferleger;
John D. Metz;
(2014)
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Sackman, Douglas Cazaux;
(2005)
Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
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Vetter, Jeremy;
(2012)
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John Hoenig;
(2018)
Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom
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Wilson, Bee;
(2008)
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
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Yarrington, Doug;
(2014)
Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908--1935
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French, Michael;
Phillips, Jim;
(2000)
Cheated Not Poisoned? Food Regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875-1938
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Kastner, Justin;
Powell, Douglas;
Crowley, Terry;
Huff, Karen;
(2005)
Scientific Conviction amidst Scientific Controversy in the Transatlantic Livestock and Meat Trade
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Rebecca Egli;
(2018)
The World of Our Dreams: Agricultural Explorers and the Promise of American Science, 1890-1945
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Loeber, Anne;
(2011)
The Food Chain Reforged: Novel Food Risk Arrangements and the Metamorphosis of a Metaphor
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Marcie Cohen Ferris;
(2014)
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
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de la Peña, Carolyn;
(2013)
Good to Think with: Another Look at the Mechanized Tomato
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Daemmrich, Arthur A.;
(2004)
Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
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Miller, Clark A.;
(2006)
“An Effective Instrument of Peace”: Scientific Cooperation as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938--1950
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Mattias Smångs;
Kent Redding;
(2019)
A Match Made in Heaven? Southern Evangelicalism and the Rise and Fall of Agrarian Populism in the 1890s
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Short, Brian;
(2012)
The Social Impact of State Control of Agriculture in Britain 1939--55
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Clarke, Sabine;
(2013)
The Research Council System and the Politics of Medical and Agricultural Research for the British Colonial Empire, 1940--1952
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