2007 WHEATS Meeting
University of Goergia
Presenters:
Nicholas Bauch (UCLA), "A Natural History of Digestion"
Kelly Enright (Rutgers), "Discovering Jungle Peace: the Prolonged Observations of William Beebe"
Philip Herrington (UVA), "Planters and Landscape in the Cotton Belt Wetlands: Burke County, Georgia, to 1860"
Clapperton Mavhunga (University of Michigan), "Force Multipliers: Vermin Control 'Science' and the Origins of Rhodesia's Biological and Chemical Warfare, 1937-70"
PJ Newcomb (Georgia Tech), "Culture and Horticulture: The Rise of the Georgia Peach from Hog Forage and Bitter Brandy to State Icon"
Gabe Rosenberg (Brown), "'In their hands the destiny of the Nation': The American 4-H Movement and the Crisis of Rural Social Reproduction"
Abigail Schade (Columbia), Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Western Desert of Egypt
Hayden Smith (UGA), Inland Rice Agriculture in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, 1700 to 1800
Amrys Williams (UW-Madison), "Head, Heart, Hands, and Health: 4-H, Ecology, and Conservation in Wisconsin Agriculture, 1930-1950"