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Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

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Kellar, Brenda M.

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The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...

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and Robert Evans looked at the exchange of specialized knowledge between scientists and sheep
Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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Canavan, Barbara C.

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By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...

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, no. 4 (July 2009): 253–54. 8 Robert E. Kohler and Kathryn M. Olesko, “Introduction: Clio Meets