... 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...

...Jackson R. Perry Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World . By Andrea E. Duffy . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9097-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...

... as a model for regional Mexican history and an important contribution to our understanding of Mexico s agrarian reform and revolutionary state. David Reid Poly Prep Country Day School Moveable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University...

... the widespread use of enslaved labor. As a conceptually reconfigured site, Pinar del Río offers a new narrative of Cuban tobacco, one that identifies and understands the area as an additional site of slave commodity production in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Through a pattern of interconnected...

...Brett L. Walker 132 / Agricultural History Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Simon Partner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.210 pp., $19.95, paper? back, ISBN 0-520-24097-9. Even after finishing Simon Partner's thoughtful Toshie: A Story of Village Life...

...Robert Peden Abstract The burning of the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand by pastoralists in the second half of the nineteenth century has been highly contentious. The dogma of "indiscriminate burning" has become so entrenched in New Zealand’s environmental history that critics...

...Pete Daniel The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America . Joshua Blu Buhs . Book Reviews / 375 debate, the author observes that "cattlemen and ranchers in Lee County's rural eastern section wanted to opt out of the [mosquito control] district...

...Lisa Ossian Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience . Marilyn Irvin Holt . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 127 Mingling, matching, and cross-referencing the contents of these transcribed conversations prove the heroic role...

...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...

...Victor W. Geraci Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, California wineries entered a new vinti-business (vertical integration of grape farming, wine production, and wine distribution) era based on the needs of a global wine economy by adapting historic survival lessons learned from...

...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...

...Patricia S. Kruppa Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages . Nicola Verdon . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages. By Nicola Verdon. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell...

...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...

...Evan P. Bennett Florida’s Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century . Nano Riley and Davida Johns . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 103 Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century. By Nano Riley and Davida Johns. Gainesville: University Press...

...Josip Faričić; Željka Šiljković; Martin Glamuzina Abstract The Lower Neretvian area is one of the most developed agricultural regions of Croatia. Until the second half of the twentieth century, this was a scarcely populated area with poor inhabitants and undeveloped agriculture. Extensive land...

...Carolyn J. Lawes Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America . Wayne E. Fuller . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 375 Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne E. Fuller. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 264 pp...

...Rebecca Sharpless Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century . Sandra K. Schackel . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 373 in agriculture and recreational activities. His photos were also exhibited in many museum collections...

...Christine A. Langone Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century . David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 489 of nature writing, metaphor and environmentalism" (29). He shows how some of the most prominent...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century . Richard Lowitt . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Winter Colony inAlabama but also points toward a trulyAtlantic approach to the history of the early...

...Zaheer Baber Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century . Laxman D. Satya . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews tieth century. These economic pressures were the result of Thai-Mien in teractions; for example, only largeMien...