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...Daniel Pierce Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina . By Kathryn Newfont . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 400 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4125-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014...

...Sara M. Gregg Abstract The small upcountry farms of Southern Appalachia were slowly fading away during the early twentieth century, but pockets of self-sufficient farms remained in places like the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These farmers, responsive to the constraints...

...John Opie Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains . William Ashworth . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews the local grounds. The Murphy brothers, John and Tom, played a vital role in developing the home grounds for teams inNew York, Pittsburgh...

...Angela Lakwete Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life . By Andrea Feeser . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2013 . 168 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4553-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Adam W. Dean The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War . Edited by Brian Allen Drake . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . 256 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4715-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016...

...Julie Brugger The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community . By Jack Stauder . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2016 . 416 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-87417-995-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 457...

...Steve Longenecker The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge . Charles D. Thompson Jr. . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter merely adding a forty-page introduction does not justify the purchase...

...D. Clayton Brown Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South . By James C. Giesen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-29287-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History...

...Andrew C. Baker Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination . By Richard M. Mizelle Jr. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . 224 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 979-0-8166-7926-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

... not how the cotton pest destroyed the region’s staple crop, but how women and men across race and class lines understood the beetle’s threat and used it to their advantage. The statue, like the countless blues and folk songs about the pest, was a cultural statement that shaped the understanding of the bug...

...Tai Elizabeth Johnson Abstract On the outstretched fingers of Black Mesa lie the longest continually inhabited settlements in North America. Here, on the Hopi Indian Reservation, roots of blue corn reach deep into sandy soil that sustained one of the world's most biologically diverse agricultural...

... as the complexities of our reliance on nature even as we go to great lengths to transform it. olivia Saucier University of Vermont Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. By andrea Feeser. athens: university of georgia Press, 2013. 168 pp., $24.95, paperback, iSBn 978-0...

... Agricultural History how a cycle that played out earlier in other parts of the West unfolded on the Blue. Initial settlement and stock raising in the 1880s was followed by a cattle boom that led to overstocking, fueled in part by federal land policy that encouraged this tragedy of the commons. Coupled...

... time, he argues, the flood shaped black environmental consciousness and the very meaning of black citizenship. The evidence here is damning, yet it is hard to shake the feeling that Backwater Blues sacrificed some of the richness of its blues sources in its commendable effort to be concise. When...

...figure 1. Warning of contaminated soil. Blue Ridge Parkway, Watauga County, North Carolina. Author's photo, 2017. ...

.... On the other, despite being forced to play a required minimum of Canadian artists on the airwaves, Maple Leaf radio stations still tend to play as much American music as possible during primetime. Two of the strongest essays point out country music's unique co-development with the blues, and the resultant...

... substitute the term providence cultivation for upland cultivation to describe the earliest production regime in the Lowcountry (28). Other than these two interpretive contributions, caveat lector. Peter A. Coclanis University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927...

...,” Agricultural History 85 ( Winter 2011 ): 24 – 49 ; Giesen , Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 ). 2. For some wide-ranging examples on the connection between statuary and historical memory, see, W. Fitzhugh...

..., 1800-1900. Edited by Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. 314 pp., $48.00, hardback, ISBN 1-57233-072-4. Kenneth Koons and Warren Hofstra have brought together an impres- sive array of scholars to examine Virginia's Great Valley between the Blue Ridge...