2006 WHEATS Meeting
University of Western Ontario
Presenters:
Bradley D. Skopyk (York University), "Reflections from the Wetlands of Colonial Mexico: Gauging the Environmental Consequences of Agro-Systemic Interaction in Tlaxcala, 16th and 17th Centuries"
Yan Gao (Carnegie Mellon University), "Water Control, Economy and Dilemma of the Commons in the Jianghan Plain in 17-19th Centuries"
Rebecca J. Woods (MIT), "Landon Carter's Animal Kingdom: Livestock and Medicine on an Eighteenth-Century Plantation"
Emily Pawley (University of Pennsylvania), "'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Quantification and Chemical Value in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Agricultural Improvement"
Eric C. Stoykovic (University of Virginia), "Keeping Stock Healthy: The Unintended Consequence of the Attempt to Improve Cattle in Massachusetts, 1859-67"
Michelle R. Worosz (Michigan State University), "Bugs, Black Boxes, and Frames of Nature"
Kendra Smith-Howard (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Unnatural Nature of Dairy Byproducts, 1925-1955"
Michelle McLachlan (University of Georgia), "Cultivating Americans: Landscape, Gardening and Assimilation at Manzanar Relocation Center"