History of Agriculture in the U.S./Bibliography

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Cochrane, Willard W. The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis (1993)
Fite, Gilbert C. American Farmers: The New Minority (Indiana U. Press, 1981)
Gras, Norman. A history of agriculture in Europe and America, (1925). online edition
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Bidwell, Percy and Falconer, John I. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States 1620-1860 (1941)
Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (1992)
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Bidwell, Percy and Falconer, John I. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States 1620-1860 (1941)

Craven, Avery Odelle. Soil exhaustion as a factor in the agricultural history of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860 (1926) online edition
Gray, Lewis Cecil. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vol (1933), classic in-depth history online edition
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Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts." American Historical Review 11 (July 1906): 798-816.
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Phillips, Ulrich B. "Plantations with Slave Labor and Free." American Historical Review, 30 (July 1925): 738-53.

Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, edited by L. H. Bailey, 4 vols. 1907-1909. online edition highly useful compendium
Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz. Rural Social Trends (1933) online edition
Dean, Virgil W. An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate. University of Missouri Press, 2006. 275 pp.
Gee, Wilson. The place of agriculture in American life (1930) online edition
Lord, Russell. The Wallaces of Iowa (1947) online edition
Mayer, Oscar Gottfried. America's Meat Packing Industry: A Brief Survey of its Development and Economics. (1939) online edition
McCormick, Cyrus. The Century of the Reaper: An Account of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the Inventor (1931) online edition
Mullendore, William Clinton. History of the United States Food Administration, 1917-1919 (1941) online edition
Nourse, Edwin Griswold. Three years of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1937) online edition
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Shannon, Fred Albert. Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945) online edition comprehensive survey
Wilcox, Walter W. The farmer in the second world war (1947) online edition

Cyclopedia of American agriculture; a popular survey of agricultural conditions, ed by L. H. Bailey, 4 vol 1907-1909. online edition highly useful compendium
Black, John D. The Rural Economy of New England: A regional study (1950) online edition
Clawson, Marion. The Western range livestock industry, (1950) online edition
Dale, Edward Everett. The range cattle industry (1930) online edition
Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier: 1865-1900 (1966), the west
Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Agricultural and Rural History of Kansas." Kansas History 2004 27(3): 194-217. Issn: 0149-9114 Fulltext: in Ebsco
Larson, Henrietta M. The wheat market and the farmer in Minnesota, 1858-1900 (1926). online edition
MacCurdy, Rahno Mabel. The history of the California Fruit Growers Exchange (1925). online edition
Miner, Horace Mitchell. Culture and agriculture; an anthropological study of a corn belt county (1949) online edition
Nordin, Dennis S. and Scott, Roy V. From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. Indiana University Press, 2005. 356 pp.
Sackman, Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (2005)
Saloutos, Theodore. "Southern Agriculture and the Problems of Readjustment: 1865-1877," Agricultural history (April, 1956) Vol 30#2 58-76 online edition
Sawers, Larry. "The Mule, the South, and Economic Progress." Social Science History 2004 28(4): 667-690. Issn: 0145-5532 Fulltext: in Project Muse and Ebsco

Cunfer, Geoff. On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. Texas A. & M. U. Pr., 2005. 240 pp.

==Historiography==\

Atack, Jeremy. "A Nineteenth-century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty-first Century." Agricultural History 78, no. 4 (2004): 389-412.
Bogue, Allan G. "Tilling Agricultural History with Paul Wallace Gates and James C. Malin." Agricultural History 80, no. 4 (2006): 436-460.

Phillips, Ulrich B. ed. Plantation and Frontier Documents, 1649-1863; Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial and Antebellum South: Collected from MSS. and Other Rare Sources. 2 Volumes. (1909). online vol 1 and online vol 2
Schmidt, Louis Bernard. ed. Readings in the Economic History of American Agriculture (1925) online edition