...Jeannie M. Whayne Book Reviews / 95 Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless. By S. Charles Bolton. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. 240 pp., hardback, $28.00, ISBN 1-55728-518-7; paperback, $15.00, ISBN 1-55728-519-5. S. Charles Bolton's Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless...

... , History of Newton County, Arkansas ( 1950 ; reprint Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 149 , 150. 7 June Westphal and Catharine Osterhage, A Fame Not Easily Forgotten: An Autobiography of Eureka Springs (Conway, Ark.: River Road Press, 1970 ), 214 Otto Ernest Rayburn...

...Ryan Poe Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902–1954 . By Sherry Laymon . Little Rock : Butler Center of Books , 2009 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-9800897-7-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...,and grislyviolencewere no worseinArkansasthanelsewhereintheSouth,yetothersouthernstatesdid notwitnessthesame enthusiasmforLiberianemigrationT. he strengthof the back-to-Africma ovementin Arkansas,assertsBarnes,is largelyaccountedforby the conceptof relativedeprivation": The change in the perceiveddegreeof...

... Department of Archives and History Arkansas s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest. By Matthew Hild. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018. 212 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8262-2166-7. The final third of the nineteenth century witnessed the rise...

...Jeannie M. Whayne Hill Folk: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image . Brooks Blevins . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 380 / Agricultural History For historians, this book is valuable for its descriptions of daily life and work in the region. In case studies...

... these changes. This article explores the work of Arkansas Jeanes supervisors, active in the state from approximately 1909 until 1950, who were valued and even revered for their contributions to and advocacy for rural African American communities. It further explores how their activism included but also...

...Michael B. Dougan The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819–1861 . Donald P. McNeilly . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 110/ Agricultural History The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas...

...Jeannie Whayne During the Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 . Margaret Jones Bolsterli . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews absenceoftheintervenincgohortof agriculturaelconomichistorianws ho mighthavedoneso...

...Jeannie Whayne Abstract This paper argues that agricultural scientists Dwight Isley, Harry Rosen, and William Baerg developed an “integrated pest management” approach at the University of Arkansas in the 1920s; an approach that served as an inspiration for later generations of researchers...

...Kelly Houston Jones Abstract This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from...

...Kathryn Beasley [email protected] Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965 . By Cherisse Jones-Branch . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press , 2021 . 240 pp., $39.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9781610757447 . Copyright ©...

...Paul Barba [email protected] A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas . By Kelly Houston Jones . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2021 . 284 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780820360201. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 Kelly Houston...

... of the greatest concentration of camps and captive workers devoted to a single crop occurred along the southern stretch of the Mississippi River. Cotton planters in Arkansas, Mississippi, and northern Louisiana secured over twelve thousand war prisoners from 1943 to 1946. German and Italian prisoners reinforced...

...JASON MANTHORNE Abstract Having been evicted from their farms because of incentives created by the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act, sharecroppers in Arkansas formed the bir acial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU) in 1934. Led by socialists and radicals, the organization ultimately...

... and that is the highest praise for such a work. Michael Pierce University of Arkansas Fayetteville The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California s Great Central Valley. By Philip Garone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 448 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26663-6. Philip Garone s excellent first...

... balance between success, failure, and resignation in the difficult environment of the Arkansas Delta. While Whayne spans the Wilson family s business activities from 1834 to 2010, it is Robert E. Lee Wilson (1865 1933) who is the most dominant figure. Having said that, Lee s father Josiah Wilson would...

.... C. Fred Williams University of Arkansas Little Rock 551 ...

..., Chinese environmental history, and diplomatic history. Zach Smith University of Central Arkansas A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800 1929. By Behnaz A. Mirzai. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 344 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1186-8. Behnaz Mirzai surveys the history...

... rights, urban, and agricultural history. Taken together, in her work, they provide a more robust history of black people s ongoing struggle for freedom on their own terms. Cherisse Jones-Branch Arkansas State University Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative...