Tad Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3693385 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tad Brown |
| NOMBRES | Tad |
| APELLIDO | Brown |
| FIRMA | BROWN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8994-2851 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Humus gnosis
Sir Albert Howard helped popularize the idea of translating ‘Eastern’ practice into ‘Western’ science in the field of agriculture. His approach to composting has been foundational to organic farming and counterposed with the field of agricultural chemistry. This depiction of feuding ideologies – organic versus chemical – is based largely on Howard’s opposition to the fragmentation of scientific knowledge and its products, especially artificial fe…
Africa and the Cattle Without History
The premise of this article is that African historiography has yet to embrace the genetic basis of cattle tolerance to tsetse-borne trypanosomiasis due to the literature's emphasis on human illness and landscape modification. By the early 1980s, empirical research indicated that N'Dama cattle possessed a tolerance to the disease that was heritable and, as such, could be strengthened through breeding. The Gambia's first president, who was a former…
Cropping synonymy
This article examines crop varietal standardization in the United States. Numerous committees formed in the early twentieth century to address the problem of nomenclatural rules in the horticultural and agricultural industries. Making shared reference to a varietal name proved a difficult proposition for seed-borne crops because plant conformity tended to change in the hands of different breeders. Moreover, scientific and commercial opinions dive…
In the Patented Bag
This article explores the early history of two American peanut companies: Planters and Tom's. Both food manufacturers developed major commercial brands through the ownership of intellectual property. In this case, the sourcing of different peanut types figured into the marketing of salted peanuts. Through a legal dispute involving Tom's patented retail bag, I examine how food packaging changed how peanuts were advertised, distributed, and consume…
Farm Fields as Toxic Sinkhole
This book, dedicated “to all who have mixed their hands with the soil,” is the latest publication in the University of California Press series Critical Environments, which explores “the political forms of life and ecologies that emerge from histories of capitalism, militarism, racism, colonialism, and more.” Romero explains that he had originally wanted to study toxicology as an environmental scientist, to help regulate agricultural pollutants fo…
Provisioning an Urban Economy
Isotopic evidence from animal bones deposited in urban contexts offers a landscape perspective into urban life, hinting at where animals lived before reaching their final resting place in the city. Here, we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence from cattle (Bos taurus) bones excavated from commercial and residential sites within historic Charleston, South Carolina, to evaluate whether markets pooled or segregated access to beef cattle d…
Long in the Horn
This article explores the evolutionary history of Pineywoods cattle, an endangered breed of landrace cattle in the southeastern United States, including recent efforts by the Pineywoods Cattle Registry & Breeders Association to conserve the remaining diversity within the population. The human dimension of the breed's development is important to both the history of selection within herds and the ongoing process of conservation. There exists a need…
Provisioning an Urban Economy
Isotopic evidence from animal bones deposited in urban contexts offers a landscape perspective into urban life, hinting at where animals lived before reaching their final resting place in the city. Here, we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence from cattle (Bos taurus) bones excavated from commercial and residential sites within historic Charleston, South Carolina, to evaluate whether markets pooled or segregated access to beef cattle d…
Long in the Horn
This article explores the evolutionary history of Pineywoods cattle, an endangered breed of landrace cattle in the southeastern United States, including recent efforts by the Pineywoods Cattle Registry & Breeders Association to conserve the remaining diversity within the population. The human dimension of the breed's development is important to both the history of selection within herds and the ongoing process of conservation. There exists a need…
Provisioning an Urban Economy
Isotopic evidence from animal bones deposited in urban contexts offers a landscape perspective into urban life, hinting at where animals lived before reaching their final resting place in the city. Here, we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence from cattle (Bos taurus) bones excavated from commercial and residential sites within historic Charleston, South Carolina, to evaluate whether markets pooled or segregated access to beef cattle d…
Cropping synonymy
This article examines crop varietal standardization in the United States. Numerous committees formed in the early twentieth century to address the problem of nomenclatural rules in the horticultural and agricultural industries. Making shared reference to a varietal name proved a difficult proposition for seed-borne crops because plant conformity tended to change in the hands of different breeders. Moreover, scientific and commercial opinions dive…
In the Patented Bag
This article explores the early history of two American peanut companies: Planters and Tom's. Both food manufacturers developed major commercial brands through the ownership of intellectual property. In this case, the sourcing of different peanut types figured into the marketing of salted peanuts. Through a legal dispute involving Tom's patented retail bag, I examine how food packaging changed how peanuts were advertised, distributed, and consume…
Farm Fields as Toxic Sinkhole
This book, dedicated “to all who have mixed their hands with the soil,” is the latest publication in the University of California Press series Critical Environments, which explores “the political forms of life and ecologies that emerge from histories of capitalism, militarism, racism, colonialism, and more.” Romero explains that he had originally wanted to study toxicology as an environmental scientist, to help regulate agricultural pollutants fo…
Africa and the Cattle Without History
The premise of this article is that African historiography has yet to embrace the genetic basis of cattle tolerance to tsetse-borne trypanosomiasis due to the literature's emphasis on human illness and landscape modification. By the early 1980s, empirical research indicated that N'Dama cattle possessed a tolerance to the disease that was heritable and, as such, could be strengthened through breeding. The Gambia's first president, who was a former…
Humus gnosis
Sir Albert Howard helped popularize the idea of translating ‘Eastern’ practice into ‘Western’ science in the field of agriculture. His approach to composting has been foundational to organic farming and counterposed with the field of agricultural chemistry. This depiction of feuding ideologies – organic versus chemical – is based largely on Howard’s opposition to the fragmentation of scientific knowledge and its products, especially artificial fe…
Biology (5 obras) · Agriculture (4 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · American History and Culture (3 obras) · Ecology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Agroforestry (2 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 obras)