... Atack and Fred Bateman, "Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crop Yields and Labor Productivity Growth in American Agriculture: a New Look At Parker and Klein," Research in Economic History ( Supplement 3 ) ( 1984 ): 215 -42 Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman, To Their Own Soil: Agriculture...

... of the Fens remains a vital, well-researched, and provocative book. It deftly integrates a wide variety of disciplines so that one would not need a specialist understanding of a particular subfield say, seventeenth-century agriculture or popular politics to follow the arguments, while still remaining lively...

...Timothy K. Minella Abstract In the early nineteenth century, agricultural reformers in the United States called for the establishment of pattern farms, institutions that would conduct experiments in husbandry and model proper agricultural practices for farmers. This essay analyzes the drive...

... ); Sven Dierig , “Engines for Experiment: Laboratory Revolution and Industrial Labor in the Nineteenth-Century City,” Osiris 18 ( 2003 ): 116 – 34 ; Sven Dierig et al., “Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science,” Osiris 18 ( 2003 ): 1 – 19 . 2. Besides the station...

...Clare Griffiths Mothers, Wives, and Changing Lives: Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Wales . By B. J. Brown and Sally Baker . Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2011 . 227 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7083-2334-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...

...Andrew Sluyter Abstract A longstanding assumption posits that white ranchers from the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, provided the knowledge to establish the first cattle ranches in Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, that blacks merely provided the labor...

...Peter Hillis Abstract In the nineteenth century many farmers kept a diary of the farming year to record such features as the weather, crop yields, animal husbandry, and prices. Research into church and people in the parishes of Fordyce and Portsoy in North East Scotland led to the discovery...

...John Martin Peaceful Surrender: The Depopulation of Spain in the Twentieth Century . By Fernando Collantes and Vincente Pinalla . Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars , 2011 . 216 pp., $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4438-2838-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

... of reminding us of this and placing these recent events in historical context. Frederick Knight Morehouse College Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York. By Grey Osterud. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 296 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8014...

...Thomas Roberston DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World . By David Kinkela . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 272 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3509-8 . © the Agricultural...

...Margaret W. Rossiter Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America . By Carolyn M. Goldstein . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2012 . 424 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3553-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013...

...Cynthia G. Falk Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century . By Lucas C. Barger . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 . 190 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4384-46028 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Alice Weinreb Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe . Edited by Ina Zweininger-Bargielowska, Rachel Duffett, and Alain Drouard . Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate , 2011 . 294 pp., $119.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4094-1770-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book...

... of the dominant paradigms in rural American historiography that characterize the nineteenth-century economy either in essential terms or in terms of an uneasy coexistence of ambivalent systems. © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 NOTES 1. William A. Z. Edwards Diaries and Account Books...

...James L. Huston Abstract The United States established a record of economic growth in the nineteenth century unmatched by other nations. What has not been recognized is the role of the distribution of income in generating an aggregate demand that sustained such growth. By comparing the economies...

...Cathal Smith Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland . Edited by Matthew Kelly . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2019 . 248 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781789620320. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 568 Agricultural History Nature...

...María Esther Hammack 774 Agricultural History Given the influential role of America s meatpackers in the late nineteenth century in both industrial capitalism and union history, this is a curious oversight. Although Capitalist Pigs doesn t quite live up to the fantastic title, it is a worthy...

...Paul Michael Warden Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans . By Urmi Engineer Willoughby . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6774-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 560...

...Peter Kolchin The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South . Dylan C. Penningroth . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 112 / Agricultural History memory. "A Personal History of Memory," by Robert R. Archibald advocates...

...Michael P. Johnson Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South . William Kauffman Scarborough . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 225 Masters ofthe Big House: Elite Slaveholders ofthe Mid-Nineteenth-Century South...