Mark R Finlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark R Finlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark R |
| FAMILY NAME | Finlay |
| SIGNATURE | FINLAY M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Armstrong Atlantic State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since
Reviewed by: Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding by Jonathan Harwood Mark Finlay (bio) Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding. By Jonathan Harwood. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xviii+270. $140. As with his previous books, Jonathan’s Harwood long-awaited study of the rise of plant breeding in Germany has turned out to be more th…
International Science and Local Conditions on the Ground
Questions of how agricultural science would be defined, who would conduct the research, where investigations and teaching would take place, and whose interests it would serve became significant issues in the Baltic provinces in the nineteenth century. The Baltic German elite made repeated efforts to bring scientific agricultural practices into the region and to build institutions that would disseminate them in ways that suited local interests. Wh…
Far Beyond Tractors
This essay reviews three recent books that assess the interwoven relationships among the histories of technology, agriculture, and the environment. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode's Creating Abundance , J. L. Anderson's Industrializing the Corn Belt , and Christopher Henke's Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power each fit within an emerging genre labeled "envirotech," an approach that challenges presumptions that technology's impacts upon society, th…
Philip J. Pauly (1950-2008)
Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008)
News| October 01 2008 Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008): A Memorial Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 524–527. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Finlay; Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008): A Memorial. Agricultural History 1 January 2008; 82 (4): 524–527. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482…
Academic Drift In German Agricultural Education
Old Efforts at New Uses
The American search for biobased and renewable raw materials has a long history of intermittent success and frustration. This article traces the history of the chemurgy movement‐a precursor to what are now sometimes called agricultural “new uses” initiatives‐from its context of the 1920s through its emergence as a political force in the mid‐1930s, when chemurgy offered a strategy for industries and governments interested in reviving the agricultu…
Einstein's German World
Morastwelt und Paradies
Book Review| July 01 2002 Morastwelt und Paradies: Ökonomie und Ökologie in der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Meliorationen in Westfalen und Brandenburg (1830–1880) Morastwelt und Paradies: Ökonomie und Ökologie in der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Meliorationen in Westfalen und Brandenburg (1830–1880). Rita Gudermann. Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 614–616.…
German Agriculture in Transition
Book Review| October 01 2002 German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe. Geoff A. Wilson and Oliva J. Wilson. Mark R. Finlay Mark R. Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 736–737. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.736 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
New Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany
L'historiographie de l'agriculture allemande apres-guerre est decrite ainsi que ses pratiques socio-historiographiques, ses reformes et la vie rurale
The Living Land
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in Rural Europe The Living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in Rural Europe. Jules Pretty. Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 114–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Fi…
The History of Agricultural Science and Technology
442 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the text. Despite these shortcomings, this book provides an informa tive and balanced historical account of chiropractic in America. Lesley Biggs Dr. Biggs is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. The History ofAgricultural Science and Technology: An InternationalAnno tated Bibliography. By R. Douglas Hurt and Mary Ellen Hurt. New York: Garland, 1994. Pp. xiii + 485; index. $…
The History of Agricultural Science and Technology
As part of a series of bibliographies on the history of science and technology, this volume provides a needed service to the researcher.The strength of this bibliography is its international scope, its reliance on scientific rather than historical journals, and its practical and helpful annotations for the 1,380 entries.As the editors stress, it is a starting place for historians.It is not the usual bibliography containing only secondary historic…
Justus von Liebig und Julius Eugen Schlossberger in ihren Briefen von 1844-1860
Far Beyond Tractors
This essay reviews three recent books that assess the interwoven relationships among the histories of technology, agriculture, and the environment. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode's Creating Abundance , J. L. Anderson's Industrializing the Corn Belt , and Christopher Henke's Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power each fit within an emerging genre labeled "envirotech," an approach that challenges presumptions that technology's impacts upon society, th…
New Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany
L'historiographie de l'agriculture allemande apres-guerre est decrite ainsi que ses pratiques socio-historiographiques, ses reformes et la vie rurale
Justus von Liebig und Julius Eugen Schlossberger in ihren Briefen von 1844-1860
The History of Agricultural Science and Technology
442 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the text. Despite these shortcomings, this book provides an informa tive and balanced historical account of chiropractic in America. Lesley Biggs Dr. Biggs is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. The History ofAgricultural Science and Technology: An InternationalAnno tated Bibliography. By R. Douglas Hurt and Mary Ellen Hurt. New York: Garland, 1994. Pp. xiii + 485; index. $…
The History of Agricultural Science and Technology
As part of a series of bibliographies on the history of science and technology, this volume provides a needed service to the researcher.The strength of this bibliography is its international scope, its reliance on scientific rather than historical journals, and its practical and helpful annotations for the 1,380 entries.As the editors stress, it is a starting place for historians.It is not the usual bibliography containing only secondary historic…
The Living Land
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in Rural Europe The Living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in Rural Europe. Jules Pretty. Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 114–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.1.114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Fi…
New Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany
L'historiographie de l'agriculture allemande apres-guerre est decrite ainsi que ses pratiques socio-historiographiques, ses reformes et la vie rurale
Einstein's German World
Morastwelt und Paradies
Book Review| July 01 2002 Morastwelt und Paradies: Ökonomie und Ökologie in der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Meliorationen in Westfalen und Brandenburg (1830–1880) Morastwelt und Paradies: Ökonomie und Ökologie in der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Meliorationen in Westfalen und Brandenburg (1830–1880). Rita Gudermann. Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 614–616.…
German Agriculture in Transition
Book Review| October 01 2002 German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe. Geoff A. Wilson and Oliva J. Wilson. Mark R. Finlay Mark R. Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 736–737. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.736 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Old Efforts at New Uses
The American search for biobased and renewable raw materials has a long history of intermittent success and frustration. This article traces the history of the chemurgy movement‐a precursor to what are now sometimes called agricultural “new uses” initiatives‐from its context of the 1920s through its emergence as a political force in the mid‐1930s, when chemurgy offered a strategy for industries and governments interested in reviving the agricultu…
Academic Drift In German Agricultural Education
Philip J. Pauly (1950-2008)
Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008)
News| October 01 2008 Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008): A Memorial Mark Finlay Mark Finlay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 524–527. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Finlay; Philip J. Pauly (1950–2008): A Memorial. Agricultural History 1 January 2008; 82 (4): 524–527. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482…
Far Beyond Tractors
This essay reviews three recent books that assess the interwoven relationships among the histories of technology, agriculture, and the environment. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode's Creating Abundance , J. L. Anderson's Industrializing the Corn Belt , and Christopher Henke's Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power each fit within an emerging genre labeled "envirotech," an approach that challenges presumptions that technology's impacts upon society, th…
Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since
Reviewed by: Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding by Jonathan Harwood Mark Finlay (bio) Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding. By Jonathan Harwood. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xviii+270. $140. As with his previous books, Jonathan’s Harwood long-awaited study of the rise of plant breeding in Germany has turned out to be more th…
International Science and Local Conditions on the Ground
Questions of how agricultural science would be defined, who would conduct the research, where investigations and teaching would take place, and whose interests it would serve became significant issues in the Baltic provinces in the nineteenth century. The Baltic German elite made repeated efforts to bring scientific agricultural practices into the region and to build institutions that would disseminate them in ways that suited local interests. Wh…
Agriculture (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · German (5 works) · Icon (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Library science (5 works)