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...James C. Giesen Abstract As scholars and singers have pointed out in monographs and folk songs, the cotton boll weevil was a devastating force on southern farming and rural life. No symbol is more indicative of this destruction than Enterprise, Alabama’s boll weevil monument. This essay examines...

...Mark Hersey Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South . By Andrew Zimmerman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2010 . 416 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-12362-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...

...David Burel Getting out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928 . By Martin T. Oliff . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1955-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book...

...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...

...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...

... some needed inter? pretive direction. His evidence shows that, compared with Argentina, Rio Grande's ranching economy changed very little and very slowly during the nineteenth century. Richard W. Slatta North Carolina State University Cattle In the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama...

... and associated issues. Michael Steinberg University of Alabama Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton. By Seung-Joon Lee. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 320 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-08047-7226-6. This well-researched and well-crafted monograph...

... another book. In the meantime, Every Nation Has Its Dish is a fine place to start. Leni Sorensen Independent Scholar To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University s Advancements in Human Health, 1881 1987. By Dana Chandler and Edith Powell. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. 216 pp...

.... Ultimately, it is a study of guerrilla warfare that points out certain instances when the environment and race came into play, but there is a reason why these topics come second and third in the book s title. Adam H. Petty University of Alabama Getting out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement...

... and the people who lived there. Such complexities abound in this well-researched and lucidly written book. Martin has made a valuable contribution to understanding a company whose imprint continues to be felt in the places where it once operated with impunity. Mark Moberg University of South Alabama ...

... and to the pleasures of self-interested plantation owners. John F. kvach University of Alabama Huntsville 456 ...

... for an evolving transnational approach to environmental hazards in an age of globalization. To that end, Toxic Injustice makes a valuable contribution, documenting the extent to which contemporary environmental movements are, and must be, transnational. ellen griffith Spears University of Alabama Europe Irish...

... trade, the Iberian colonization of West Africa and the Americas, and the formation of Caribbean societies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez The University of Alabama Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation. Edited by Dorothée Imbert. Cambridge: Harvard...

..., and the relationship of politics and ecology. It is, in the end, an impressive example of the dynamic and compelling wave of contemporary environmental history. Lucy Kaufman University of Alabama Latin America and the Caribbean Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By Eve...

... in Greenville, Alabama, Rogers had a love of reading and study, passions that earned him an academic scholarship to Auburn University. His graduate school studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill were interrupted by two years in the army, after which Rogers earned a PhD with Dr. Fletcher Green...

...Lee W. Formwalt Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Obituary Jerry W. DeVine, public historian and member of the Agricultural History Society, who specialized in nineteenth-century southern and agricultural his? tory, died on 13 December 2001. Jerry grew up in Alabama...

... that, compared with Argentina, Rio Grande's ranching economy changed very little and very slowly during the nineteenth century. Richard W. Slatta North Carolina State University Cattle In the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. By Brooks Blevins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998...

...Thomas Chase Hagood Reborn in America: French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815–1865 . By Eric Saugera . Translated by Madeleine Velguth . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2011 . 584 pp., $30.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173...

... (New York: Penguin Books, 1976 ) J. Mills Thornton III, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800–1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 ) Lacy K. Ford , Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 (New York...