...Mark Riley The Battle of the Fields: Rural Community and Authority in Britain during the Second World War . By Brian Short . Rochester : Boydell Press , 2014 . 480 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84383-937-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History...

...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...

...Martin Bruegel Work, Gender, and Authority on the The Hudson Valley Countryside, 1790s-1850s Farm: MARTIN BRUEGEL Scottish traveler James Stuart put a rather somber spin on his description of rural areas in the Mid-Atlantic region when, in the early 1830s, he noted, "the harvest work being...

...Michelle Wibbelsman Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador . Barry J. Lyons . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews LatinAmerica and theCaribbean RememberingtheHacienda: Religion,Authoritya,nd Social Change...

... to found pattern farms as an attempt to shift authority in agricultural science from a scattered network of farmers and agricultural journals to a central institution that would provide definitive judgments about proper practices. By advocating for pattern farms, agricultural reformers attempted to answer...

...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...

... and contribute to solutions to the challenges of global agricultural development. The author suggests historians should acknowledge contradictory interpretations and work toward reconciliation and synthesis, where it is possible and, where not, toward a clear explication of the basis for remaining differences...

... government, which established the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority to administer the water and electric resources of the island. Modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority, this public corporation helped Puerto Rico recover from the 1928 and 1932 hurricanes, improved long-term public health, and broke...

... to frontiers such as sparse settlement, gender imbalance, the absence of infrastructure, the weakness of traditional Old World institutions, and racism lowered respect for authority and made law enforcement extremely difficult. The author suggests that the truth of the latter thesis is bolstered by the fact...