...R. Douglas Hurt My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver . By Mark D. Hersey . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 306 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3870-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...

...Arnold R. Alanen The Round Barn: A Biography of an American Farm . By Jacqueline Dougan Jackson . Beloit, Wisc. : Beloit College Press , 2011 . 566 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-884941-18-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural History Summer...

...Thomas D. Finger Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop . By Catherine Zabinski . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 216 pp., $24.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-55371-9. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 382...

...Richard Kirkendall The John Deere Story: A Biography on the Plowmakers John and Charles Deere . Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews context that is familiar to most readers of nature writing, but they also...

.... Earlychaptersfocuson thebeginningosftheBay Colonyand thesettling-inprocess.The author makes the astoundingdiscoverythat the principabl usinessofthecolonistsintheearlyyearswascreatingsettlements 538 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780...

...Sara E. Morris The Queen of American Agriculture: A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith . Fredrick Whitford , Andrew G. Martin and Phyllis Mattheis . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews fortheirtendencyto clingto landas a safeinvestmenwt...

...Carmen Kordick Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Elizabeth Terese Newman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3073-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

...Christina Salinas The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography . By Miriam Pawel . New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2013 . 550 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60819-710-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Summer known about this history across...

...Roland Sawatzky Abstract By looking at a museum artifact as an object worthy of biography, in which agency is suggested by its impact on people associated with it, we are able to outline its role as an implement of social construction. The Pierre Bruce violin is situated first in the detailed...

...David Pattinson Abstract The archaeological evidence for human consumption of honey in China dates back to the seventh millennium BCE, while the earliest reference to beekeeping is in a third century CE biography of a reclusive scholar who kept bees during the mid-second century. Based mainly upon...

...). This modest statement does not do justice to the scope and depth of Sawahn s mammoth and successful research project. This is an impressive reference book with a richness of information that must have taken years to complete. To write the twenty-one biographies of women who were activists in the countryside...

...-3226-0. Michele Gillespie s new biography examines the life of tobacco magnate Richard Joshua Reynolds and his wife and cousin, Katharine, thirty years his junior. In chapters alternating between R. J. R. and Katharine, Gillespie probes the private and public faces of two most intriguing figures...

..., 2003.416 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 1-8061-3515-8. Delphus E. Carpenter may not be a name that immediately comes to mind in the complicated annals of western water history, but the appearance of Dan Tyler's biography will go a long way to ensure Carpenter some star power on the marquee. Carpenter is first...

... a translation. Jeffrey m. pilcher University of Toronto Scarborough Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico. By elizabeth Terese newman. Tucson: university of Arizona press, 2014. 272 pp., $29.95, paperback, isBn 978-0-8165-3073-1. Few works bring into question the divide between academic...

... of the new deal s Agricultural Adjustment Administration and subsequent agricultural policies imply that significant differences should exist. The need for data-rich studies of farmers as a class remains. Anecdotal evidence will enrich such studies, but biography, newspaper articles, county extension agent...

... the unfashionable idea of commerce to the French nobility. Martha L. Keber similarly relies on this image in her latest, Seas ofGold, Seas of Cotton, to sell the biography of one French aristocrat, Christophe Poulain DuBignon, as a window into the eighteenth-century noblesse bourgeois world. To a cer? tain extent...

... ): 23 – 24 ; Alex M. Cain , The Cornchest for Scotland: Scots in India ( Edinburgh : National Library of Scotland , 1986 ), 7 ; Margaret Steven, “Campbell, Robert (1769–1846),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, http...

... helped open higher education to women, African Americans, the working class, and immigrants. It seems surprising, therefore, that Coy Cross II has published the first book-length study of Morrill since the 1924 biography by William Parker. Book Reviews / 129 Lacking a deep biographical tradition...

... lifetime, scored great good fortune after her death by having Shirley Leckie as her biographer. Leckie, professor of history at the University of Central Florida, distills the details of ninety-eight years of Debo's tempestuous life into an engaging volume in the Western Biography Series of the University...

...-4193-0. Daniel Tyler, the author of a fine biography of Delph Carpenter and his work developing western water compacts, follows herein with a biography of another prominent resident of northern Colorado whose career illuminates significant aspects of recent western history. William Daven (WD) Farr...