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...C. Michele Thompson These chapters start, in a geographic sense, in northern Vietnam with a chapter by Turner and Derks on the production of star anise and its movement through local and regional commodity chains. As found throughout the book, there is a concise overview of the various uses...

... and wide-ranging in topics, periods, and methodology. They do not claim this book to be comprehensive or definitive but intend it to suggest and encourage further scholarship in envirotech. The book has six topical chapters that bridge time periods and places, organized around five concepts and arguments...

... and argues thatpastoralist ecology offers new perspectives on issues like development and sustainability. The next chapter explores the early history of African pastoralism, but this history ignores discussions of pastoralists' recent engagements with processes of economic, climatic, and political change...

... but condoned by Indigenous laws. The next few chapters address the establishment of settler police forces, the policing of Indigenous communities, and the cooperation of Indigenous scouts and trackers with settler police. The book then goes on to examine the agents and agencies that liaised with Indigenous...

... of Economic Entomology and realized what ultimately became the thesis of his book. His argument, succinctly captured in each chapter, is “that the transition to chemical agriculture was as much a story about trying to get rid of industrial waste as it was about using chemicals to mass produce food” (3). So...

...James C. Williams Agricultural History Fall society are inconsistent, which will frustrate non-specialists. Some citations are not found in thebibliography and some website addresses provided seem inaccurate. Further, the book's thematic organization comes with a cost, as many chapters are plagued...

... in Asia was well underway. Bosma directs attention to the period before the 1400s, but the bulk of the book is weighted toward more recent history. Of the book's fourteen chapters, only two explore sugar history before the fifteenth century. This century is significant, for it was in the 1400s...

... of professional forestry from modern Europe. In Chapter One, Miller traces the emergence of timber shortage to the early twelfth century, when the Southern Song (1127 1279) lost access to northern forests, while urbanization and naval expansion drove up timber demands. Because its new power base in the Lower...

... Civil War Supply and Strategy into eleven chapters that trace the evolution of Union and Confederate logistics and strategy over time. Chapter One explains how and why the Union invasion of Kentucky and Tennessee required two distinct logistical approaches: river-borne in the West and railroad-bound...

.... The first few chapters cover the domestication of various crops starting more than twelve thousand years ago with the first Native American colonization of the Eastern Woodlands. Fritz defines domestication “as the process during which a plant or animal evolves in physical appearance and genetic makeup from...

.... Next, Helen O Connell discusses the phenomenon of improvement in rural Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century. This chapter details the emergence of a belief in the capability to transform nature (and, by extension, society) by material means and processes (22), and it is notable...

... be unalterably different without Haber and Bosch, but these protagonists do not appear un? til chapters four and five, respectively; then their lives are described in the most perfunctory manner. Ultimately, this book is less about Haber and Bosch than it is about the necessity for their invention, its...

... the Agricultural History Society 2024 Beginning in chapter 1 of Growing Gardens, Building Power , sociologist Justin Sean Myers makes clear that “gardens in East New York are not just about growing food: they are about growing dreams. . . . They are for growing community” (4–5). These words offer a key sound...

... that outsiders can relate to. I found it clear and engaging throughout. The book begins with a chapter on the contemporary politics of weaving. Beginning with a discussion of how Aboriginal women living at the mouth of the river have long used wetland sedges to weave, the chapter moves on to a broader...

... scholarly intent to evoke and describe the myriad facets of the Big Sioux River Valley. One of the significant strengths of the edited collection as a whole is the disparate nature of the contributions; each of the chapters offers a markedly different vision of the region. In so doing, however, the work...

... a revealing chapter on how such lobbies as the National Farmer's Union, the Central Landowners' Association, the National Union of Agricultural Workers, and the Women's Institute responded to Whitehall's planners and Westminster's politicians. He offers another chapter on how governmental food...

... and discourses. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, the book consists of six substantive chapters organized thematically and chronologically. The first chapter traces the global and local contexts within which white settler tobacco commercial farming was introduced in Southern Rhodesia. However...

.... The work is aimed at a broad scholarly audience, and it treats historical as well as contemporary cases. it makes a valuable contribution to the literature on pastoralism. The book s eleven chapters aim to elucidate the relationship between pastoral systems and their physical and cultural environment...

... successfully contextualize the farming practices of the empowered and the disenfranchised throughout history. The authors divide their study into epochs and civilizations. This methodology allows for a high degree of comparison within each chapter. Early chapters focus on major developments in the ancient...

... organization, culminating in a centralized bureaucratic empire. Natural ecosystems were replaced with artificial ones, which were amenable to the extraction of energy by humans in general and state rulers in particular. The book's dual focus is on agriculture and the state. The opening chapter provides...