...Meredith McKittrick Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia . By Michael Bollig . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 404 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-8848-8. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 408...

...Tisa M. Anders Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869 . By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore . University of Oklahoma Press , 2016 . 388 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-5562-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 267...

...Katie Rawson Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama . Edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press , 2015 . 295 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-55728-679-6 . © 2018 Agricultural...

...Matt Childs West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844 . By Manuel Barcia . New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 208 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-1987-5426-8 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 627...

...Debra A. Reid Abstract "African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities...

...Joshua D. Rothman Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves . Ira Berlin . 2007 Book Reviews as a result, the Malthusian fears of food shortages, which were common early in the century, were overcome. Throughout...

...Sandra Schackel African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000 . Quintard Taylor Shirley Ann Wilson Moore . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson...

...Angela Jill Cooley Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning . By Rafia Zafar . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2019 . 168 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-5367-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 679 vacuum that makes...

...Tiffany Ruby Patterson Howard W. Odum’s Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies . Lynn Moss Sanders . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 484 / AgriculturaHl istory West.That corporate ranchingwas dependent on financialties...

...Debra A. Reid Abstract The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumulated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness of the disfranchised at the height of African-American landownership. Farm women and their families invested...

...Charles W. Eagles American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta . Nan Elizabeth Woodruff . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. Cambridge...

...Peter Kolchin The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South . Dylan C. Penningroth . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 112 / Agricultural History memory. "A Personal History of Memory," by Robert R. Archibald advocates...

...David Schoenbrun African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interaction . Sibel Barut Kusimba . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 504 / Agricultural History is almost a guarantee of temporariness." Change occurs too rapidly and frequently for large bureaucracies...

...Hanes Walton, Jr. African American Politics in Rural America: Theory, Practice, and Case Studies from Florence County, South Carolina . E. Ike Udogu . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews But the book does more than present the variety of practice. Its...

...Keith Volanto Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas . Debra Reid . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring David La Vere'sLifeamongtheTexasIndians.BakerandHenshawfocused theirresearchin...

...Mary Ellen Curtin "Negro Markets, Thieves" or Enterprising the Law, and African American Regulation in Alabama, 1866-1877 Farmers?: Community MARY ELLEN CURTIN Slaveholders, in theory, possessed the right to the fruits of their slaves' la? bor. In practice, however, many enslaved men and women...

...Rebecca Sharpless Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms . Stewart E. Tolnay . Book Reviews / 703 Worster's Rivers of Empire (1985). But he does note that even Hay den rec? ognized that new environmental voices...

...Joseph P. Reidy Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps . Olen Cole Jr. . 824 / Agricultural History cotton, the influence of federal programs such as the Commodity Credit Corporation and the new shifts...

..., "Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, Agrarian Reform, and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service," (Ph.D. diss., Texas A&M University, 2000), 67–77 21 Texas Department of Agriculture Bulletin, No. 67 , 1919 , 109 -10 22 Janet Sharp Hermann , The Pursuit of A Dream...

...Frederick Douglass Opie © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine . By James C. McCann . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2009 . 213 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-89680-272-8 . 2011 Book Reviews rather than of probing...