...Wayne Anderson Abstract The 1980s Farm Crisis began receiving national attention in the middle of the decade in large part because of Hollywood films such as Country and the star-studded Farm Aid concert. However, religious leaders and organizations had already started to warn of an impending...

...Virginia DeJohn Anderson Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World . By Michael A. LaCombe . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . 240 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4418-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014...

...Jennifer L. Anderson Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History . Edited by Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . $100.00 , 224 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-1-137-38109-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...J. L. Anderson Abstract American farmers of the postwar period reduced labor requirements for production through the use of new machines and chemicals. Farm work was increasingly managerial and less physical. Observers struggled with how to represent this businesslike and technocratic farmer, first...

...Paul Christopher Anderson Slavery and the American South . Winthrop D. Jordan . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 112 / Agricultural History More worrisome is the lack of a thesis. Event after event occurs, trend after trend play themselves out, but rarely does...

...J. L. Anderson The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida . Gordon Patterson . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 373 without end." In the dynamic spirit of his age, Emerson remade the circle from an emblem of timeless tradition...

...Virginia Dejohn Anderson Abstract For over thirty years (1653-1685), Thomas Minor kept a diary recording his activities as a farmer in Stonington, Connecticut. This article uses Minor’s diary, the only extant document of its kind for the seventeenth century, to reconstruct key features...

...J. L. Anderson A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression . Dwight W. Hoover . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Book Reviews NorthAmerica A Good Day's WorkA: n Iowa Farmin theGreatDepression.By Dwight W.Hoover. Chicago:Ivan R. Dee, 2007.240 pp26.00,hardback,ISBN...

...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...

...J. L. Anderson Pig . By Brett Mizelle . London : Reaktion Books , 2011 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-805-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History Fall both hand labor for production and crushing and machinery to prepare...

...J. L. Anderson Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 R. Douglas Hurt , American Farm Tools From Hand Power to Steam Power (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1986 ) Agricultural Technology in the Twentieth Century (Manhattan...

...J. L. Anderson; Julia Brock; Nancy E. Villa Bryk; R. Douglas Hurt; Debra A. Reid Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites . By Debra A. Reid . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefeld , 2017 . 284 pp., $85.00 cloth, $38.00 paper, ISBN 978-1-4422-3010-1 ; 978-1-4422...

...E. N. Anderson Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China . By Ellen Oxfeld . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . 280 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-5205-9352-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 271 Book Reviews Asia...

...Sarah Wassberg Johnson Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America . By J. L. Anderson . Morgantown : West Virginia University Press , 2018 . 300 pp., $34.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-946684-73-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 772 Agricultural History becomes...

...Shane Hamilton Industrializing the Cornbelt: Agriculture, Technology, and the Environment, 1945–1972 . By J. L. Anderson . DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press , 2009 . 248 pp., $32.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-87580-392-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Mark Swislocki Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China . By E. N. Anderson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 352 pp., $45.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4638-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews Asia Food...

...Sterling Evans Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community . E. N. Anderson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews studies and analyzes it to show the original diversification of rural economic strategies from region to region.He then describes the rapid...

...James A. Vlasich Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources . M. Kat Anderson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring ences of middle-class white women in the borderlands, whose "civilizing...

... H. Anderson, “Agriculture in the Museum of Science and Industry Founded by Julius Rosenwald,” Agricultural History 3, no. 4 (Oct. 1929): 182-85; Waldemar Kaempffert, From Cave-Man to Engineer: The Museum of Science and Industry Founded by Julius Rosenwald, an Institution to Reveal the Technical...

... in 1940 was little different, Joe Anderson contends, from that of a farmer in 1900. But as Anderson demonstrates in this important contribution to US agricultural history, Iowa farmers by the early 1970s had adopted the industrial ideal hook, line, and sinker. Faced with a cost-price squeeze and tight...