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... especially on the way that rivers have often been forgotten over time. Amahia Mallea s book makes an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power...

... (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001); and Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). 4. “Inroads upon English,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 102 (Oct. 1867): 415. Featured...

...Meredith McKittrick Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia . By Michael Bollig . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 404 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-8848-8. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 408...

...Richard W. Judd Backwoods Consumers & Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada . By Béatrice Craig . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 349 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8020-9317-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...R. Todd Welker Abstract The character of local exchange has long assumed an important place in the historiographical debate on the capitalist transformation of the American countryside. Whereas that character has been carefully examined in nearly every rural corner of the United States...

...David Blanke Abstract According to critics, history resides at an intellectual crossroads. They charge that scholars rely too heavily on ill-defined concepts-like agency-and under-appreciate the determination force of the capitalist consumer economy. This essay appraises the key themes, methods...

... from a damaged crop of oranges as from a bumper crop. This case study thus calls into question the meaning of "rationalized" agriculture, showing that the logic of capitalist agriculture is not always straightforward. Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Notes 1 John McPhee...

... reformers in the United States, he addressed the problems of rural poverty and land concentration not with socialism, but with visions of a Mexico filled with small, capitalistic, home-owning farmers producing with scientific methods and business efficiency. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society...

... California, World War I, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and finally neoprohibition, wine entrepreneurs rebuilt each time by returning to nineteenth-century capitalist tenets intrinsic in a market economy. Successful wineries found ways to achieve the most efficient economy-of-scale...

... for themselves. Their choices, visible in everyday routine purchases, have implications for some of the main stories about material life, consumption, and market relationships in early settlement society. It is difficult, for example, to picture rural isolation from a capitalist world if ordinary farm families...

... to managerial business practices like cost accounting. The books, which enslavers prized for their ability to monitor overseers and discipline recordkeeping habits, were one part of a violent, capitalist, and chaotic system of extracting cotton from enslaved people and southern soils, rather than a sign...

.... Ironically, when Mexican seeds arrived in India, they were divested of association with national agrarian reform programs and instead became a stand-in for capitalist development and the transformative American promise of technology. Indeed, the story of the arrival of high-yielding variety (HYV) Mexican...

... show that, while the capitalist framework of the agricultural landscape kept workers pinned to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, the landscape itself provided spaces where they could use traditional knowledge of Cannabis to climb that ladder, albeit illegally. The ensuing interactions between...

... on Benthall's patent rights, although all these companies were using peanut pickers based on the original design by a Black farmer and inventor named Benjamin Hicks, whose 1901 patent preceded Benthall's. Hicks's story reveals how discriminatory race relations in the Jim Crow South and capitalist imperatives...

... of a viable prerevolutionary capitalist bourgeoisie. Rather, as indicated by the subtitle's inclusion of “primitive accumulation,” this book deploys an explicitly Marxist definition of capitalism, grounded in the work of Robert Brenner, in which the term can only apply to a society in which the relations...

... capitalists in that country, in particular the work of Steve Striffler, and also adheres to the standard banana republic narrative of the Caribbean basin from the 1910s onward, in particular for Guatemala and Honduras, and to a lesser degree Limon, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean coast of Colombia...

...,2006.272pp21.95,paperback, ISBN 0-8223-3674-X. Based on a local case study of an 1870-1930 coffee boom in themunicipality of Diriomo, Dore argues that landholding patterns and labor exploitation systems impeded, rather than facilitated, capitalist development inNicara gua.Marxists have long questioned whether...

... transformations involve fashioning new social categories (xiv). as the region shifted from a pre-capitalist plantation society to a capitalist new south, the defining feature of this change, according to ruef, was enduring uncertainty (3). This took several forms. in cases of classical uncertainty...

... an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. By J. L. Anderson. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. 300 pp., $34.99, paperback...

... understandable. The introduction and conclusion that take for granted a capitalist restora tion inCuba would make such collaboration unrealistic: Reinvention, in contrast [to the present restructuringinitiated in 2001], aims to create a competitive and profitable agroindustryon thehistorical foundation...