...John Muldowny Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper East Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 . John Benhart Jr. . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter in Japan. The project, which Raper thought...

.... Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Iowa StateUniversity An Appalachian Farmer'sStory:Portraitof an ExtraordinaryCommon Man. By Diane Asséo Griliches.Maçon, GA: MercerUniversityPress, 2007.144pp40.00,hardback,ISBN 978-0-88146-062-9. A subsistencfearmernamedRoyAnderson(1922-2002)andhissisterPatsey (1930-1994...

...Sara M. Gregg Appalachian Folkways . John B. Rehder . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 263 passes the area from the ninety-eighth meridian westward to El Paso, to just past the one hundred sixth meridian. By focusing only on the ninety-eighth to ninety...

...Sara Gregg Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods . Thomas Rain Crowe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring velopment of the tin can, and the invention of large ironclad ships have all had impacts on food supply and dietary habits...

...Dwight B. Billings Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850–1915 . Robert S. Weise . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 715 co-option of hamlet associations in a program intended to involve every fam...

...Bruce E. Stewart Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path By Walking . Edited by Chad Berry, Phillip J. Obermiller, and Shaunna L. Scott . Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . 240 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-08083-8. © 2016 the Agricultural History...

...H. Tyler Blethen Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians . Donald Edward Davis . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 247 newspaper investigations; sociological surveys of material conditions; and fi? nally cultural...

... radical new interpretations, this work will be useful and informative for those not familiar with the important agricultural dimensions of the civil War in the South. Judkin Browning Appalachian State University Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. By Bartow J. elmore. new york: W. W. norton...

... attention to the agricultural history of the area. As a result, much about agricultural choices and rural life in the region remains unexplored, and our understanding remains incomplete. The story of bright tobacco in southern Appalachia serves as a reminder that some Appalachian farmers, rather than merely...

..., and associated industries. The authors show that from the very first courses offered, the departmental mission was to combine technology with farming, literally engineering agriculture. Paul k. nienkamp Fort Hays State University Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path By Walking. Edited by Chad Berry...

.... In my deepest nostalgia, I recall the North Carolina Appalachians where I grew up as a place of wild, wooded freedom. Barbed-wire fences were merely decorations to clamber over or walk past in my long wanderings, sometimes solitary, sometimes with my father as guide and companion. I knew all my...

..., a founding member of the Appalachian Studies Associ? ation, has made an important contribution to regional scholarship with this clearly written survey. Appalachianists have long awaited a serviceable syn? thesis of the region's history from pioneer times to the present, and Drake's economical work fills...

... on establishing cooperatives, credit unions, and other noncapitalist enterprises. The search for alternative development practices must involve rethinking surplus distribution in communities and acknowledging the impact of globalization throughout the region, Fickey and samers continue. appalachian studies...

... in the bibliographic material might encourage a slightly al? ternative approach in others?an attempt to assimilate the hidden quantification contained in the variety of investigations. Michael Turner University of Hull, Great Britain Where There are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians...

... and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians , Miscellaneous Publication no. 205 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1935 ), 41 Paul Salstrom , Appalachia’s Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region’s Economic History, 1730–1940 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994 ), 101 8 Gifford Pinchot...

... fueled dreams of sudden richeswithin Appalachian communities since the earliest Euro-American settlement of that region. Even as the fate of timber and coal industries have risen and fallen, ginseng harvesting has been a persistent cottage industry among Appalachia's rural residents.Moreover, ginseng...

...-sustaining activity" (3). Drake portrays a quasi-spiritual bond between rural Appalachians and agriculture, surviving even the monumentally disruptive forces of the timber, coal, agribusiness, and information industries. He presents this bond not merely as nostalgic romanticism but as the harbinger...

... the 1870s and the 1930s. Her innovative methods, creative use of sources, and accessible prose yield a provocative book sure to be useful to scholars, students, and general readers alike. Having previously published books on Appalachian literature and American foodways, Engelhardt connects the two fields...

... books, twenty published primary sources, and forty journal articles. The lengthy bibliography is an excellent resource for those wanting to learn more about the topic. Glen Sample Ely Texas Christian University Appalachian Folkways. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.368...

... a broad representation of southern sub-groups will be disappointed. Louisiana Acadians are the subjects of two of the seven essays, as are small American Indian tribes and Appalachians. The other essay focuses on a black community in coastal South Carolina. Carolyn E. Ware traces the transformation...